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Valuation of a near-central binomial coefficient
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Valuation of a near-central binomial coefficient
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2026-09-24
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2026-09-28
If
k
≥
1
and
k
+
2
≤
p
≤
2
k
+
1
is prime, then
v
p
(
(
k
+
1
2
k
+
1
)
)
=
1.
(1)
Indeed, neither
(
k
+
1
)!
nor
k
!
contains
a
factor
p
, while
(
2
k
+
1
)!
contains
p
exactly once because
2
p
>
2
k
+
1
.
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