Consecutive Integers whose Product is Primorial/Mistake/First Edition

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Source Work

1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers:

The Dictionary
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Mistake

They discovered on computer that only primorial $1$, $2$, $3$, $4$ and $7$ can be represented as the product of consecutive numbers, up to primorial $3049$.


Correction

There are three problems here:

$(1): \quad 4$ is wrong -- it should be $5$. (This has been corrected in Curious and Interesting Numbers, 2nd ed. of $1997$.)
$(2): \quad$ The primorial of $17$, which the section discusses, is omitted from this sentence. It perhaps ought to start:
Apart from primorial $17$, ...
$(3): \quad$ The primorial of $1$ is generally accepted as being $1$. There are no two consecutive numbers whose product is $1$: $0 \times 1 = 0$, $1 \times 2 = 2$.


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