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We consider Lagrange’s equation x21 +x22 +x23 +x24 = N, where N is a sufficiently large and odd integer, and prove that it has a solution in natural numbers x1, . . . , x4 such that x1x2x3x4 + 1 has no more than 48 prime factors.