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Some absolute constant bounds how many times any number greater than 1 appears in Pascal's triangle.

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Statement

There is a constant $C$ such that every integer $> 1$ appears at most $C$ times as a binomial coefficient (Singmaster). No number is known to appear more than 8 times (3003 appears 8 times).

Assessment

Renown 3/5

Charismatic number-theory conjecture; interior-solution finiteness proved for the central strip by Matomäki-Radziwill-Shao-Tao-Teräväinen (2021).

Attackability 2/5

A 'counterexample' means finding numbers with ever more representations -- a finite, verifiable witness per candidate; searches beyond 10^60 have found nothing past 8, but the search itself is cheap to extend.

finite witness
5/5
oracle cost
4/5
freshness
1/5
seedability
2/5

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