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By KingMace, history, 3 years ago, In English

This is an example of problem form Russian state exam, you have to precompute unswer and fill in blank with this answer, you are given 4 hours for the whole exam, and this one is not the hardest, can someone please me help with fast solution.

Find all integer number on the segment [106 000 000, 107 000 000] which have 3 different even dividers. Put this numbers in the answer.

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Try to print all the integers divisible by 8 in this range.

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    this is not gonna work, just consider that it has 2 4 8 and number itself are even dividers, it is already more than 3

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    It does not work (see the answer below). Also, most likely the author meant ``exactly 3 different even divisors''.

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      I've translated it exactly the way it is written, word for word

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Let's write the number in the form $$$2^kr$$$ where $$$r$$$ is odd. The number of even divisors is then $$$k\cdot d(r)$$$. Thus, $$$k$$$ can be $$$1$$$ or $$$3$$$. If it is $$$3$$$, then $$$d(r)=1 \implies r=1$$$, which is impossible in the given range.

Now we know that $$$k=1$$$ and $$$d(r)=3$$$. The latter can only happen when $$$r$$$ is a square of some prime number $$$r=p^2$$$. Finally, to find all such numbers, you should iterate over all even numbers in the given range, divide them by $$$2$$$, check whether the quotient is a perfect square, and finally check whether its square root is prime. To check whether $$$\sqrt{r}$$$ is prime you can either use a brute-force solution (you will only check numbers up to $$$\approx 100$$$) or precompute all prime numbers up to $$$\approx 10^4$$$.