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Oct 7, 2021 at 20:17 comment added Peter Taylor Checked up to 232, but it's taken the past 12 hours to get from about 208 to 232 so I'm killing it now.
Oct 7, 2021 at 6:22 comment added Thomas Browning It seems like all roots of $f_n(x)$ might lie outside the unit circle. Not sure how to prove it, but this is the sort of thing that can sometimes be useful for proving irreducibility.
S Oct 7, 2021 at 3:19 history edited Tony Huynh CC BY-SA 4.0
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Oct 6, 2021 at 23:09 comment added Peter Taylor @ThomasBrowning, I have a test running in Sage which has got up to 167 so far without finding a counterexample.
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Oct 6, 2021 at 21:18 comment added Thomas Browning If my PARI code is correct, then the first conjecture is true for $n\leq100$.
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Oct 6, 2021 at 14:12 history edited Mare CC BY-SA 4.0
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