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- From: tim@maths.tcd.ie (Timothy Murphy)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: I imagine this comes up all the time...
- Keywords: unique factors
- Message-ID: <1993Jan3.012714.27478@maths.tcd.ie>
- Date: 3 Jan 93 01:27:14 GMT
- References: <1993Jan3.003521.26610@tessi.com>
- Organization: Dept. of Maths, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
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- ronl@tessi.com (Ron Lunde) writes:
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- >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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- Actually, with your definition, 2^{17} (approximately 130,000)
- has 15 factors,
- If M = p_1^{e_1}...p_r^{e_r}
- is the factorisation of M into primes then
- the number of factors of M is (e_1+1)...(e_r+1) - 2.
- So if N+2 is a prime,
- the only numbers with exactly N factors
- are the prime powers p^{N+2}.
- (In your case, N+2 = 17 is a prime.)
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