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Sweet Sixteener (Posted on 2005-02-03) Difficulty: 2 of 5
For this problem, only positive whole numbers are to be considered. What is the smallest number that has exactly 16 numbers (including 1 and itself) that divide into it without remainder? Proof?

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re: Answer | Comment 3 of 6 |
(In reply to Answer by Old Original Oskar!)

I thought there might be some paradoxical way to include a larger factor or power and get a smaller answer, so I ran a quick brute force program that confirmed 120 as the answer. 
  Posted by Penny on 2005-02-03 17:23:49

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