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Keywords:
Jordan-Pólya numbers; factorial function; friable numbers
Summary:
A positive integer \$n\$ is said to be a Jordan-Pólya number if it can be written as a product of factorials. We obtain non-trivial lower and upper bounds for the number of Jordan-Pólya numbers not exceeding a given number \$x\$.
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