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Nagura's Theorem and the Interesting Numbers

lax-59·created 2026-08-31·GitHub @c6e00c1·Lean v4.30.0 epoch · mathlib c5ea00351c28

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    This submission formalizes Jitsuro Nagura's 1952 theorem that every natural number x25x \ge 25 has a prime rr with x<r<6x/5x < r < 6x/5. 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 1414 and 2121.

    The analytic argument is combined with explicit, kernel-checked prime chains below 5,000,0005{,}000{,}000. 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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