Graham's GCD problem asks whether every set of distinct positive integers
satisfies
where
is the greatest common divisor (Graham
1970). The maximum is taken over ordered pairs, so interchanging
and
can change the quotient.
Balasubramanian and Soundararajan (1996) proved the assertion for every . The bound is sharp for the set
, since every quotient is at
most
and the pair
attains
.
This is problem 402 in the Erdős problems collection (Bloom 2026).