OT Last week's CarTalk puzzler

[Mark Wieder]

Charles-

Thursday, November 24, 2005, 7:05:31 AM, you wrote:

> But it doesn't seem to be a necessary condition. The factors of 36 --
> by the double definition you have to use in order to make sense of  
> the statement of the problem -- are either
>                         1   36   2   2   3   3
> or
>                         1   36   2   3
> -- which counted one way amount to 6 and the other, 4, neither of  
> which is conspicuously odd. It looks to me as though old Tom is  
> wrong. Gee, does that ever happen?

???

I count the factors of 36 as being:

1 2 3 4 9 18 36

and that seems odd to me...

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-Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net