You asked what Guy and I were looking for that led us to notice the prime-factors thing. In my case, the answer is just that by training I’m a pure mathematician and I can’t help noticing that sort of thing. For whatever reason it didn’t occur to me to, e.g., look at the distributions of the exponents of 2, 3, and 5 or anything like that, not that doing so would have led me to pick different items or anything.
(I was glad to see that you liked “Wakalix Maketh it Goe”.)
You asked what Guy and I were looking for that led us to notice the prime-factors thing. In my case, the answer is just that by training I’m a pure mathematician and I can’t help noticing that sort of thing. For whatever reason it didn’t occur to me to, e.g., look at the distributions of the exponents of 2, 3, and 5 or anything like that, not that doing so would have led me to pick different items or anything.
(I was glad to see that you liked “Wakalix Maketh it Goe”.)
Thank you gjm and Guy for the responses! It lifts my spirits immensely to know that my work is being received favorably.
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