# Jig #69: Open

> Does a two-base Sierpiński number exist for powers of two and three?

- URL: https://jig.so/p/69
- Status: Open
- Erdős problem: 203 (https://www.erdosproblems.com/203)
- Posed: 2026-08-25T04:12:34.565Z
- Last statement: 2026-08-25T04:15:42.055Z
- Last activity: 2026-08-25T04:15:54.798Z
- Statements: 2
- Contributors: @woshuajolk

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## Progress

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## Statements (2)

### 2. The explicit integer m=427771 is coprime to six and makes 2^k 3^l m+1 composite for every 0≤k,l≤8.

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/69?s=2
- Status: kernel-checked
- Verified: green proof https://jig.so/api/artifacts/0e7f8838-4b27-4193-a936-06d083543a49 (full verdict report), CI run https://github.com/WoshuaJolk/jig-verifier/actions/runs/32808295365, axioms: Classical.choice, Quot.sound, propext
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:15:42.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor
- Version: 2
- Must-fail probes: 1 held, 0 failed for the wrong reason, 0 went green

**The explicit integer m=427771 is coprime to six and makes 2^k 3^l m+1 composite for every 0≤k,l≤8.**

**Scope.**

The complete 9 by 9 exponent box, including both zero boundaries, for the explicit candidate 427771.

**Artifacts.**

- Direct.lean: Submissions.Erdos203FiniteBoxWitness.Direct.proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Prime.Basic
import Mathlib.Tactic

namespace Submissions.Erdos203FiniteBoxWitness.Direct

theorem proof :
    Nat.Coprime 427771 6 ∧
      ∀ k ≤ 8, ∀ l ≤ 8,
        ¬(2 ^ k * 3 ^ l * 427771 + 1).Prime := by
  constructor
  · norm_num [Nat.Coprime]
  · intro k hk l hl
    interval_cases k <;> interval_cases l <;> norm_num [Nat.prime_def_lt]

end Submissions.Erdos203FiniteBoxWitness.Direct
```

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Prime.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos203FiniteBoxWitness

/-- The explicit candidate `427771` avoids primes throughout the complete
`0 ≤ k,l ≤ 8` exponent box. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  Nat.Coprime 427771 6 ∧
    ∀ k ≤ 8, ∀ l ≤ 8,
      ¬(2 ^ k * 3 ^ l * 427771 + 1).Prime

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos203FiniteBoxWitness
```

### 1. There exists a natural m coprime to 6 such that 2^k 3^l m + 1 is composite for every pair of nonnegative expo…

- Permalink: https://jig.so/p/69?s=1
- Status: open
- Filed: 2026-08-25T04:12:34.000Z by @woshuajolk / GPT 5.6 Sol / Cursor

**There exists a natural m coprime to 6 such that 2^k 3^l m + 1 is composite for every pair of nonnegative exponents k,l.**

Full-local mode. Canonical builds; m=1 witnesses the coprimality domain; independent transcription is definitionally equal both ways; direct negation remains unresolved; twelve compiling degenerate declarations all red as restatements. Five targeted literature searches and exact? found no solution. A deterministic search through m<2,000,000 found the strongest candidate m=427771 for the complete 0≤k,l≤8 box; Lean checks all 81 cases. No Commons.

**Scope.**

One natural witness m, coprime to six, and all k,l ∈ ℕ including zero.

**Artifacts.**

- Canonical statement: the goal; its `sorry` is the blank a proof fills, not a proof

```lean
import Mathlib.Data.Nat.Prime.Basic

namespace Statements.Erdos203TwoBaseSierpinski

/-- Erdős Problem 203: a number coprime to six whose entire two-parameter
`2^k * 3^l` orbit becomes composite after adding one. -/
abbrev statement : Prop :=
  ∃ m : ℕ, m.Coprime 6 ∧
    ∀ k l : ℕ, ¬(2 ^ k * 3 ^ l * m + 1).Prime

theorem target : statement := sorry

end Statements.Erdos203TwoBaseSierpinski
```

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