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OBM 2013 Problem 2

    Arnaldo and Bernaldo play the following game: given a fixed finite set of positive integers AA known by both players, Arnaldo picks a number a∈Aa \in A but doesn't tell it to anyone. Bernaldo thens pick an arbitrary positive integer bb (not necessarily in AA ). Then Arnaldo tells the number of divisors of abab . Show that Bernaldo can choose bb in a way that he can find out the number aa chosen by Arnaldo.

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