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There is an epilogue to Bertrand’s postulate which leads to a beautiful result on binomial coefficients. In 1892 Sylvester strengthened Bertrand’s postulate in the following way:
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Aigner, M., Ziegler, G.M. (2004). Binomial coefficients are (almost) never powers. In: Proofs from THE BOOK. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05412-3_3
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