NT game with common multiples
Source: Kvant Magazine No. 3 2021 M2645
March 9, 2023
number theoryKvant
Problem Statement
Vitya wrote down different natural numbers in his notebook. For each pair of numbers from the notebook, he wrote out their smallest common multiple on the board. Could it happen for some that numbers on the board are (in some order) consecutive terms of a non-constant arithmetic progression?Proposed by S. Berlov