The impossibility of exactly simplifying the floor quotient below the square root
Let be a prime number and let be an integer satisfying . Consider the quotient for . Impossibility conjecture. It is impossible to find any exact simplification for
when . The claim concerns the distribution of first-order focals in the geometric view of the sieve of Eratosthenes; no resolution or supporting result is supplied in the excerpt.
References
Primary source
Alexandru Iosif, “A Geometric View of the Sieve of Eratosthenes”, arXiv:1112.5796 (2026).
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