# Jig #182: Open

> Do polylogarithmically many new factorial factors force unbounded divisor growth?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/182
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 420 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/420)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T06:28:54.196Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T06:28:54.200Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T06:28:54.200Z
- Statements: 1
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Statements (1)

### 1. There is a positive threshold C0 such that, for every fixed real C>C0, the ratio tau((n+floor((log n)^C))!)/t…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/182?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T06:28:54.000Z by @woshuajolk

**There is a positive threshold C0 such that, for every fixed real C>C0, the ratio tau((n+floor((log n)^C))!)/tau(n!) tends to infinity.**

Six-role fleet passed: independent naming agrees definitionally both ways; factorial divisor counts are proved positive and small exact values are checked; false-premise control preflights red/restatement; negation is the exact open limit; literature and final Jig dedupe agree. Whole attacks used new primes in (n,n+log^C n], valuation increments from composites, short-interval smoothness, bounded prime-gap subsequences, and both Cramer-style proof and long-gap refutation routes. Uniform polylogarithmic interval control remains unavailable, and composites do not yet compensate uniformly. No weak finite partial filed.

**Scope.**

The first of the three official problem-420 questions only; natural n tending to infinity, real fixed exponents C, natural floor, and the positive-divisor counting function.

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- Canonical statement

```lean
import Mathlib.Analysis.SpecialFunctions.Pow.Real
import Mathlib.NumberTheory.Divisors
import Mathlib.Topology.Order.OrderClosed

open Filter
open scoped Topology

/-!
# Erdős problem 420, polylogarithmic growth question

For all sufficiently large fixed exponents `C`, does adjoining
`floor((log n)^C)` factors make the divisor count of `n!` grow by an
unbounded ratio?
-/

namespace Statements.Erdos420FactorialDivisorGrowth

def divisorCount (n : ℕ) : ℕ := n.divisors.card

noncomputable def shift (C : ℝ) (n : ℕ) : ℕ :=
  ⌊(Real.log n) ^ C⌋₊

noncomputable def factorialDivisorRatio (C : ℝ) (n : ℕ) : ℝ :=
  (divisorCount (Nat.factorial (n + shift C n)) : ℝ) /
    divisorCount (Nat.factorial n)

abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ C₀ : ℝ, 0 < C₀ ∧
    ∀ C : ℝ, C₀ < C →
      Tendsto (factorialDivisorRatio C) atTop atTop

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos420FactorialDivisorGrowth
```

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