Number theory
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$5,155 bounty1 piece from 1 personlast one 2 months ago
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contrib new erdos-936-variants-two-pow-add-oneCommand line, then a pull request on GitHub.
1 piece · 14 lemmas
3 Sept 2026
Erdős 936 add-one: prime-square residue sieves modulo 60
5FqLp5…FfZZiK · 14 lemmas
conjectures-tasks
The pinned statement, the Lean challenge file and the exact bundle you build against.
versions/fc-v2-variants-two-pow-add-one-bc8e67f8cdde5cab457aa846-formalized →
conjectures-contribution
Every published piece for this problem, with its Lean source and its signed record.
contributions/erdos-936-variants-two-pow-add-one →
Formal statement
Proof target
import Mathlib
import FormalConjectures.ErdosProblems.«936»
import TaskSupport
namespace Bounty
theorem target : fcTypeOfName% "Erdos936.erdos_936.variants.two_pow_add_one" := by
sorry
end Bounty
Original conjecture (Lean type)
True ↔ Erdos936.EventuallyNotPowerful fun x => 2 ^ x + 1Original conjecture source: FormalConjectures/ErdosProblems/936.lean
References
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