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Source. Bajpai--Bennett--Chan, accepted author manuscript (June 26, 2023), pp. 3--4 and 14. This is the later manuscript example associated with ; arXiv v1 instead prints a larger example associated with .
Statement. The accepted manuscript gives a four-term progression with initial term
1941933115377551077587122551830475057213069529860027159207864676
07518456158647255738252174690341489845812095405465699621251448104527
6691804469093296671884340486000359836438119479856969366457and positive common difference
264015496910372571453683338480432534892486865509162672828630181
232132015211487807492449285089616569784339663505966152854290768706
31639734824690430160038942642966756875188627215486028565587784The initial term has 190 digits and the common difference has 191 digits. The four terms have signature : the first is times a square and the other three are squares. All six pairwise gcds are .
Verification. Exact integer arithmetic in
the verification script
checks the three square roots, the square quotient by
, , and every pairwise gcd. It also reproduces the
finite congruence calculation underlying the infinite family. Independent
reconstruction from the stated elliptic-curve point shows that the printed
example arises after dividing a raw progression with common factor and
reversing it. This explains why the term occurs first here although
Proposition 5.2 writes it last; the transformation is not stated explicitly
in the manuscript. From the repository root,
uv run --no-sync python library/diophantine_problems/bajpai_2024_arithmetic_progressions_squarefull_numbers/evidence/verify_937_bajpai_examples.py
runs every named obligation in well under one second and exits nonzero on
any failed check, including under python -O.
Historical note. The manuscript calls this its smallest known example, not a proved minimum. Bennett--Walsh subsequently published a 111-digit record example.
Bears on. #937.