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Subsets said to be friends (2015 OMCS #6)

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May 16, 2015
combinatoricsSetsarithmetic

Problem Statement

Let S={1,2,3,,2046,2047,2048}S = \{1, 2, 3, \ldots , 2046, 2047, 2048\}. Two subsets AA and BB of SS are said to be friends if the following conditions are true:
[*] They do not share any elements. [*] They both have the same number of elements. [*] The product of all elements from AA equals the product of all elements from BB.
Prove that there are two subsets of SS that are friends such that each one of them contains at least 738738 elements.