Product of Consecutive Integers
Source: USAMO 2008 Problem 1
May 1, 2008
trigonometrycalculusintegrationmodular arithmeticinductionalgebrapolynomial
Problem Statement
Prove that for each positive integer , there are pairwise relatively prime integers , all strictly greater than , such that k_0k_1\ldots k_n\minus{}1 is the product of two consecutive integers.