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2023-05-27, 12:53
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Dec 2022
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The known proof about primitive divisors in Lucas sequences makes this a finite problem, and verifiable in theory: there are always only finitely many. (We can't use n^2+1 directly as that has infinity many terms without a primitive divisor, which is surely true for any polynomial.)
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