Highly Composite Numbers: 5040 and Other Anti-Primes

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Why it's here

HN points to it whenever highly divisible numbers matter, such as sharding, base 12, time units and music.

What it covers

Numberphile's James Grime discusses highly composite numbers, nicknamed anti-primes, which have more factors than any smaller number, using 5040 as the central example. It touches on Plato and Ramanujan.