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Japan Mathematical Olympiad Initial Round

Japan number theory

Problem

Find the value of where the sum is taken over all the positive factors of the number .
Solution
From it follows that there are positive factors of . Suppose we enumerate them as in increasing order of magnitude, starting with the smallest one as , then for each , , we have and therefore, we get Consequently, the desired sum is given by
Final answer
3/(16√7)

Techniques

Factorization techniquesτ (number of divisors)