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5040 and other Anti-Prime Numbers - Numberphile
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Numberphile's James Grime discusses highly composite numbers, nicknamed anti-primes, which have more factors than any smaller number, using 5040 as the central example. It touches on Plato and Ramanujan.
HN points to it whenever highly divisible numbers matter, such as sharding, base 12, time units and music.
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