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Find the number of ordered pairs of positive integers satisfying .
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Answer: 8
Multiply by : , so . Adding to both sides gives . Since , each of is at least . If both factors were negative, each would lie in and their product would be at most , so both are positive divisors of with product . The positive divisors of number , giving the ordered pairs and their reversals, i.e. and . A brute-force search over confirms exactly pairs. Note that or is impossible, since it would make .
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