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Problem 2 (due on Monday, September 26)
Find all positive integers n such that n! divides (2n+1)2n−1.
(Here n!=1⋅2⋅…⋅n is the factorial of n).
The positive integers in question are 1,2,3,5,6. Our solution and the two submitted solutions all follow the same strategy: show that with a finite and small list of exceptions, the highest power of 2 which divides n! is larger than the highest power of 2 which divides (2n+1)2n−1, hence n! can not be a divisor of (2n+1)2n−1. The small number of exceptions is then handled by hand. For a complete solution and some additional problems and material see the following link Solution.