OFM 2023 J2
- Junior
On her blackboard, Alice has written integers strictly greater than . Then, she can, as often as she likes, erase two numbers and such that , and replace them with and , where is the product of the prime factors of (each prime factor is counted only once). For instance, if Alice erases the numbers and , the prime factors of and and , and Alice writes and . Prove that, after some time, and whatever Alice's strategy is, the list of numbers written on the blackboard will never change anymore.
Note: The order of the numbers of the list is not important.
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