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Singmaster's Conjecture

Combinatorics

Singmaster's conjecture is a conjecture in combinatorial number theory, named after the British mathematician David Singmaster, who proposed it in 1971. It says that there is a finite upper bound on the multiplicities of entries in Pascal's triangle other than the number 1, which is the only number that appears infinitely many times. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Statement
There is a finite upper bound on the multiplicities of entries in Pascal's triangle, other than the number 1, which appears infinitely many times. 1
Proposed Year
1971 1
Progress Toward Resolution
Open. Singmaster showed in 1971 that the number of occurrences N(a) of a value a is O(log a); Abbott, Erdos and Hanson (1974) improved this to O(log a / log log a), and Kane (2007) gave the best known unconditional bound. The number 3003 appears eight times and is the only number known to do so; it is not known whether any number appears more than eight times. 1
Classification
Resolution Status
Open 1
Prize Status
Prize Status (category)
No Prize Offered 1
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Source Singmaster's Conjecture (Wikipedia)
Sources
1. Singmaster's Conjecture (Wikipedia)
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  • Lead section
    named after the British mathematician David Singmaster who proposed it in 1971
  • Lead section, statement sentence
    there is a finite upper bound on the multiplicities of entries in Pascal's triangle
  • Open questions section
    It is not known whether any number appears more than eight times, nor whether any number besides 3003 appears that many times.
  • Known bound section, 1974 refinement
    (1974) (see References) refined the estimate to
  • In Branch: Number Theory, Lead sentence
    ter's conjecture is a conjecture in combinatorial number theory, named after the British mathematician David Singmaster who propos
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