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62nd Ukrainian National Mathematical Olympiad

Ukraine number theory

Problem

Set contains positive integers. It is known that for any two distinct numbers the number is divisible by . Find the largest possible value of .
Solution
Answer: .

Suppose that there are at least three numbers in the set , denote them by . By the condition , and therefore the numbers are mutually prime. Since and We obtained a contradiction that proves that , and for it is enough to consider, for example, the set .
Final answer
2

Techniques

Divisibility / FactorizationGreatest common divisors (gcd)