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Let as . Is it true that
is irrational?
Source: erdosproblems.com/270
An accepted solution exists. The statement is false.
Disproved: Crmarić and Kovač's 2025 theorem that every positive real number is the value of such a series for some is recorded on its claim page (Crmarić and Kovač, 2025). The site (page last edited 2025-09-28) labels the problem DISPROVED (LEAN) and credits them with the negative answer; the Lean proof behind the label is a public formalization of their argument linked from the claim page, not built or audited in this corpus. The variant with nondecreasing , which the statement does not impose, remains open. The case is answered yes: Kovač posted on the site's discussion thread (2026-07-12) that equals with , a Cantor series with increasing integer terms, hence irrational. A manuscript of August 2026 extends the argument to with and claims transcendence, hence irrationality, for every and ; it is a pending partial claim at Lambrinoudis 2026.