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Erdős problem 890

A question of Erdős and Selfridge [ErSe67], who observe that lim infn0i<kω(n+i)k+π(k)1\liminf_{n\to \infty}\sum_{0\leq i < k}\omega(n+i)\geq k+\pi(k)-1 for every kk. This follows from Pólya's theorem that the set of kk-smooth integers has unbounded gaps - indeed, n(n+1)(n+k1)n(n+1)\cdots (n+k-1) is divisible by all primes k\leq k and, provided nn is large, all but at most one of n,n+1,,n+k1n,n+1,\ldots,n+k-1 has a prime factor >k>k by Pólya's theorem.
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