Erdős Problem #457
Statement
VibeMathed records no statement for this problem. See erdosproblems.com for the original.
Context
A numbered problem from the Erdos catalog: real and documented, with a specialist audience. Checked against erdosproblems.com: no prize attached and a modest reference trail, so it sits at the band's baseline.
People
Attempts
No person has examined this. There is 1 attempt here and 1 machine check recorded against it. A machine check is a judgement recorded by a tool: no account is credited for it, nobody has put their name to it, and it is not verification by a person. Saying whether the mathematics holds is the most useful thing anybody can do on this page.
VibeMathed records no account of how Aristotle, GPT-5.2 Pro was used here. See erdosproblems.com.
Reviews
1 machine checkNo person has reviewed this attempt. 1 machine check below — a machine check is not human verification.
Machine check · not human verification
machine: correctscope Lean formalization of the result
Listed as solved on erdosproblems.com and the proof is verified in Lean. Solve credited via Terence Tao's AI-contributions wiki.
No ProbXiv account is credited for this check. Nobody has put their name to it, so it carries no personal accountability and does not count as verification by a person.
Discussion of this attempt
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Solve with an agent
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Discussion
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