Monday, 21 December 2015

elementary number theory - Prove the multiplicity property for n!

I was given this hint in a different problem,




Now use that a prime p occurs in n! with multiplicity exactly n/p+n/p2+n/p3+n/p4+



For P=200!2100100!

And the prime being p=3.




How is the claim for n! true?




Consider n6.



n=6n!=720



720/3=240240/3=803 comes in twice.



Then, [6/3]+[6/9]=2.



So suppose 3 occurs in n! with multiplicity, n/p+n/p2+n/p3+n/p4+




It is required to show that, for (n+1)!, 3 occurs in multiplicity,



n+1/p+n+1/p2+n+1/p3+n+1/p4+



(n+1)!=(n+1)n!.



But I cant prove anything else.



Even intuitively, why does this make sense?

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