Maths Olympiad Prep

Track / Stage 5 / 8 of 400 #608 of 1964

Problem 608

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Number theory Difficulty 5.0 Find the answer

1. Six natural numbers are written on the board, such that for any two aa and bb among them (where b>ab>a), logab\log _{a} b is an integer. What is the smallest value that the maximum of these numbers can take? The answer can be written in the form of a power of a number: mnm^{n} is denoted as mn\mathrm{m}^{\wedge} \mathrm{n}.

A number or a short expression. Fractions can be typed as 3/2, and spacing doesn't matter.

Official solution

Answer: 4294967296 || 23241616825642 \wedge 32\left\|4^{\wedge} 16\right\| 16^{\wedge} 8 \| 256^{\wedge} 4

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