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Singmaster's Conjecture

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Posed by David Singmaster · 1975 · combinatorial number theory

The problem

There exists an absolute constant N such that every positive integer occurs at most N times in Pascal's triangle (excluding the trivial 1s).

History & significance

Singmaster observed 120 appears 6 times counting symmetries, and 3003 genuinely appears 6 times in distinct positions. Erdős conjectured multiplicities grow like log*; Kane (2022) proved — assuming the abc-type machinery — that entries occurring ≥ 6 times are severely constrained. Distributed searches (Rowland et al.) have verified vast ranges without finding a seventh occurrence of anything. Charming, computable, unresolved.

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