Is that even possible?

Can any natural number except 1 have odd number of factors?

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  • Factors of 36 are
  • 1 and 36
  • 2 and 18
  • 3 and 12
  • 4 and 9
  • 6 and 6
  • because 36 is a square number it has that repeated factor of 6.
  • as an ordered list we have
  • 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 12, 18, 36.
  • Because of the repeated factor which we only write once this number has an odd number of factors.
  • This occurs in all square numbers.
  • So your answer is ...
  • Y E S YES
Anandmay Patel
Oct 4, 2016

Consider a function n ( x ) n(x) such that it assigns all positive integral values of x x to their respective number of divisors \text{number of divisors} ,then we have for every r = 2 q 1 r=2q-1 , for some positive integer \text{for some positive integer} q q , y = r 2 y=r^2 , n ( y ) = 3 n(y)=3 .

So the answer is yes,as we have simply found one type of category of such numbers \text{So the answer is yes,as we have simply found one type of category of such numbers} .

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