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Dylan16807today at 3:53 PM2 repliesview on HN

Except the perfect squares don't reduce by half, so it's not quite 50% but it's very close.


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thesztoday at 7:07 PM

Some of them, with notable exception of perfect squares of primes, can be expressed by products of different combinations of factors.

E.g., 6^2 = (223)3 = 2(233).

One of ~22 (ln(2^32)) perfect squares will be a square of perfect prime. Most won't.

sdenton4today at 4:32 PM

Ha, fair!