Abstract
Question 10208b (1992) of this MONTHLY asked: Does there exist an increasing sequence {ak} of positive integers and a constant B > 0 having the property that {ak + n} contains no more than B primes for every integer n? A positive answer to this question became known as Golomb's conjecture. In this note, we give a negative answer, making use of recent progress in prime number theory.
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