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The one-step method

Why every sequence ⌊ξ(7/5)n⌋ has infinitely many composite terms — proved by building one finite graph and pruning it until nothing is left.

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This animation explains the one-step method from the paper Finite graph certificates for composite terms in rational floor sequences by Yuri Odagiri (Section 3 and Section 5.1): the proof that for every real ξ > 0, infinitely many terms of ⌊ξ(7/5)n⌋ are divisible by 2, 3, 5, 11 or 13, and hence composite.

The graphs from Chapter 3 on are not pictures of pre-computed results: the page runs the one-step computation each time it opens (30,720 states at the first stage), and its counts agree with Tables 1 and 2 of the paper.

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Paper: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22997709 · Sources and reproduction: github.com/ixixi/rational-floor-certificates · 日本語版 · Japanese explainer (chapters 1–3)