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UKMT Senior Kangaroo, 2020

Number theory Difficulty 1.0 Junior Prove it United Kingdom

The operation $\diamond$ is defined on two positive whole numbers as the number of distinct prime factors of the product of the two numbers. For example $8 \diamond 15 = 3$ . What is the cube of the value of $(720 \diamond 1001)$ ?

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