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- From: ronl@tessi.com (Ron Lunde)
- Subject: I imagine this comes up all the time...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.003521.26610@tessi.com>
- Summary: What's the smallest N with 15 unique factors other than 1 and N?
- Keywords: unique factors
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
- Date: Sun, 3 Jan 1993 00:35:21 GMT
- Lines: 31
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- I'm not a mathematician, so I'd appreciate it if anyone could point me to
- any references on this topic (that I might be able to understand :-)).
-
- The question I was toying with last night was: Given a number N,
- what is the smallest number M such that aside from 1 and M, M has exactly
- N unique factors (I guess I'm probably using "factor" in a funny way here,
- since I'm not referring to primes, necessarily). Obviously there *is* such
- a number, since we can construct at least one by multiplying the first N
- primes. It seems odd that the first ones are all fairly small, but I can't
- find the 15th (at least nothing smaller than 614889782588491410):
-
- N Divisors Smallest M Factors
- 2 6 2, 3
- 3 16 2, 4, 8
- 4 12 2, 3, 4, 6
- 5 64 2, 4, 8, 16, 32
- 6 24 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12
- 7 36 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18
- 8 48 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24
- 9 1024 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512
- 10 60 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30
- 11 4096 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048
- 12 192 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24, 32, 48, 64, 96
- 13 144 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 9, 12, 16, 18, 24, 36, 48, 72
- 14 120 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, 30, 40, 60
-
- Anyone know about this?
- Thanks!
-
- Ron Lunde
- email: ronl@tessi.com
-