On the Brocard-Ramanujan problem and generalizations
Andrzej Dąbrowski (2012)
Colloquium Mathematicae
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Let denote the ith prime. We conjecture that there are precisely 28 solutions to the equation in positive integers n and α₁,..., . This conjecture implies an explicit description of the set of solutions to the Brocard-Ramanujan equation. We also propose another variant of the Brocard-Ramanujan problem: describe the set of solutions in non-negative integers of the equation n! + A = x₁²+x₂²+x₃² (A fixed).