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Valuation of a near-central binomial coefficient

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If k≥1 and k+2≤p≤2k+1 is prime, then
vp​((k+12k+1​))=1.
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Indeed, neither (k+1)! nor k! contains a factor p, while (2k+1)! contains p exactly once because 2p>2k+1.

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