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Nagura's Theorem and the Interesting Numbers
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This submission formalizes Jitsuro Nagura's 1952 theorem that every natural number has a prime with . It then applies that theorem to classify the "interesting numbers" from mathlib4 issue #6091, item 91: the only natural numbers satisfying the stated neighboring-prime factorization condition are and .
The analytic argument is combined with explicit, kernel-checked prime chains below . The complete proof was produced with substantial language-model assistance. OpenAI Codex performed the decisive proof development and integration; Leanstral was used in earlier exploratory and module-level attempts; Anthropic Claude independently audited the resulting source and verification evidence. The publisher does not claim personal authorship or independent expert understanding of the proof.
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@misc{lax-59,
title = {Nagura's Theorem and the Interesting Numbers},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Lax Archive, lax-59},
url = {https://laxarchive.org/lax-59/},
note = {draft},
}
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