# Number $n$ such that $2^n+3^n$ has exactly $23$ prime divisors

Can anyone help me prove this question? Thank you.

Prove that there exists a positive integer $$n$$ such that the number $$2^n+3^n$$ has exactly $$23$$ prime divisors.

(I have thought about some fomulas about $$\omega (n)$$, like $${\displaystyle \sum _{d\mid n}|\mu (d)|=2^{\omega (n)}}$$, or construct the sequence $${n_k}$$ such that $$2^{n_{k+1}}+3^{n_{k+1}}$$ has exactly one more prime divisor than $$2^{n_{k}}+3^{n_{k}}$$, but it seems to be hard.)

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• Does n have to be integer or whole number or can it just be rational? In which case, this is trivial. Apr 11, 2020 at 8:00
• Good question. I cannot solve it, but I found that $2^{3^k}+3^{3^k}$ has more than $k$ prime divisors. Quick proof: Use induction. $2^{3^{k+1}}+3^{3^{k+1}}=(2^{3^k}+3^{3^k})(2^{3^{2k}}-2^{3^k}3^{3^k}+3^{3^{2k}})$ and easy calculation shows that $2^{3^k}+3^{3^k}$ and $2^{3^{2k}}-2^{3^k}3^{3^k}+3^{3^{2k}}$ are coprime. Apr 11, 2020 at 16:33
• I wish "23" were "13", as then I could just say "Observe $2^{150}+3^{150}=13\cdot61\cdot2341\cdot4621\cdot4801\cdot11701\cdot24001\cdot797701\cdot9802501\cdot104189401\cdot1333073701\cdot2296284901\cdot12826646101$.". Apr 12, 2020 at 16:34
• @MarkS. I think 23 is a "special" number, but I don't know why Apr 13, 2020 at 1:34

$$2^{342}+3^{342}$$
Factors into exactly $$23$$ distinct prime factors:
$$13, 37, 61, 73, 181, 229, 2053, 8209, 13681, 15277, 25309, 102829, 30883969, 196498153, 724174057, 743780461, 2117021041, 2230888573, 54458107801, 8077765456081, 80381675102807053, 103911691734684541, 324469548901114381$$
• @lhf I was spending $10$ seconds at most factoring a single $2^n+3^n$ expression (discarding the case if a single factor wasn't found in that time frame), for all $n$ until an example was found, in Wolfram Mathematica. Apr 16, 2020 at 11:50