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Let denote the minimal such that
with . What is the behaviour of ?
Source: erdosproblems.com/393
No claim settles this problem.
Open. The site labels the problem OPEN and credits no solution; its
remarks credit Berend and Osgood, and Bui, Pratt and Zaharescu, with density and
counting bounds for the with , and Luca, under the abc conjecture,
with . The standing derives from the claim pages: the accepted
partial claims
Berend and Osgood 1992
and
Bui, Pratt and Zaharescu 2023
are refereed bounds on how often takes a given value; the accepted
conditional claim
Luca 2002 and the
pending conditional claim
Turturean 2026
rest on the unproved abc conjecture and derive nothing; so the problem is open
with no settling or pending full claim.