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Let $f(n)\to \infty$ as $n\to \infty$. Is it true that \[\sum_n \frac{1}{(n+1)\cdots (n+f(n))}\] is irrational?
Erdős and Graham write 'the answer is almost surely in the affirmative if $f(n)$ is assumed to be nondecreasing'. Even the case $f(n)=n$ is unknown, although Hansen [Ha75] has shown that \[\sum_n \frac{1}{\binom{2n}{n}}=\sum_n \frac{n!}{(n+1)\cdots (n+n)}=\frac{1}{3}+\frac{2\pi}{3^{5/2}}\] is transcendental.