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Diophantine Reciprocals II

 Published on Friday, 2nd December 2005, 06:00 pm; Solved by 9444;
Difficulty: Level 11 [30%]

Problem 110

In the following equation $x$, $y$, and $n$ are positive integers.

$$\dfrac{1}{x} + \dfrac{1}{y} = \dfrac{1}{n}$$

It can be verified that when $n = 1260$ there are $113$ distinct solutions and this is the least value of $n$ for which the total number of distinct solutions exceeds one hundred.

What is the least value of $n$ for which the number of distinct solutions exceeds four million?

NOTE: This problem is a much more difficult version of Problem 108 and as it is well beyond the limitations of a brute force approach it requires a clever implementation.



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