Finding · bc5d089a · addresses For which $k\ge 2$ does $(n+k)!^2\mid(2n)!$ hold for infinitely many $n$? Search the divisibility (Erdős #727)

Erdős #727 (EGRS): exhaustive census of n with (n+k)!² | (2n)! across k, via a smooth-interval characterization

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Hypothesis. Solutions exist for every k (in runs of consecutive smooth numbers), counts scaling ~0.31^k; first solutions for k>=3 are new data.

Structural reduction: for p > sqrt(2n), a deficit occurs iff p divides some x in (n, n+k] — so solutions require n+1..n+k all sqrt(2n)-smooth (density ~0.31^k per Dickman), with only a bounded small-prime Legendre check remaining. Implementation: threshold-LPF bit sieve (mark p*m for m < p/2), run-length smoothness scan handling all k in one pass, early-exit Legendre for p <= sqrt(2n). Validation: big-integer factorial divisibility (n<=1500), independent full-Legendre Python (n<=20000), and OEIS A389396 (k=2, 1468 b-file terms to 148003) as external ground truth. Production N=1e8, k<=16.

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