The product of $n$ consecutive integers is divisible by $n$ factorial

This is almost immediate from the fact that the binomial coefficient $$\binom{k+n}{k}$$ is an integer. Just write the product $(k+1) \cdots (k+n)$ accordingly and you'll have your answer.


Let us prove that $m^{(k)}=m(m+1)...(m+k-1)$ is divided by $k!$ for all integer $m$. Induction by $k$.

$k=1$: Every integer $m$ is divided by $1$

$k\to k+1$:

  • induction by $m$: $m=0$: $0^{k+1}=0$ is divided by $(k+1)!$

    $m\to m+1$: $(m+1)^{(k+1)}=(m+1)(m+2)...(m+k+1)$

    $=(k+1)(m+1)...(m+k)+m^{(k+1)}=(k+1)(m+1)^{(k)}+m^{(k+1)}$

    and first term is divided by $(k+1)\cdot k!=(k+1)!$ because of induction by k and the second term is divided by $(k+1)!$ because of induction by $m$

    the same works for $m\to m-1$

Update: Oops, essentially the same proof found in the thread mentioned in this answer.