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- From: allenk@ugcs.caltech.edu (Allen Knutson)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: I imagine this comes up all the time...
- Date: 3 Jan 1993 01:03:55 GMT
- Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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- Keywords: unique factors
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- ronl@tessi.com (Ron Lunde) writes:
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- >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 divisors.
- ...
- >It seems odd that the first ones are all fairly small, but I can't
- >find the 15th (at least nothing smaller than 614889782588491410):
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- Let's factor M as \product_i {p_i}^{n_i}. Then the number of divisors
- including 1 and M is \product_i (1+n_i), because we can use each prime
- to an exponent between 0 and n_i.
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- You want this product to be 17, which is prime, so you need just one
- prime, and n_1=16. The smallest prime being 2, you appear to have overlooked
- 2^16 = 65536. I hope this is right... Allen K.
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