Number Of Divisors

Question 1

Question

Given $n\le 10^{18}$, find number of divisors of $n$.

Resources

• Codeforces Tutorial: https://codeforces.com/blog/entry/22317
• Codeforces Gym: https://codeforces.com/gym/100753 ➝ Problem K
• SPOJ: https://www.spoj.com/problems/NUMDIV/

Naive Solution

The complexity of the following is $\mathcal{O}(\sqrt{n})$.

Naive Solution

void solve() {
  int n; cin >> n;
  int an = 0;
  for (int i = 1; i * i <= n; ++i) {
    if (n % i == 0) {
      an += 2;
      if (i * i == n) --an;
    }
  }
  cout << an << '\n';
}

$\mathcal{O}(n^{\frac{1}{3}})$ solution

• Let's split $n=x\times y$ where $x$ contains only prime factors in range $[2,n^{\frac{1}{3}}]$ and rest of primes in $y$.
• Let $f(n)$ denote our answer. Now, since $x$ and $y$ are coprime, $f(n)=f(x)\times f(y)$.
• $f(x)$ can be calculated directly similar to naive solution in $\mathcal{O}(n^{\frac{1}{3}})$.
• Observe that $y$ falls into one of these cases:
  • $y$ is prime $⟹$ $f(y)=2$
  • $y$ is square of prime $⟹$ $f(y)=3$
  • $y$ is product of two distinct primes $⟹$ $f(y)=4$
• This is because there can be at max only two divisors of $y$, otherwise one of them surely must be $\le n^{\frac{1}{3}}$.

//pseudocode -- will update later
void solve() {
  int n; cin >> n;
  vector<int> pr; // all primes till 10^6
  int an = 1;
  for (auto &p : pr) {
    if (p * p * p > n) break;
    int cn = 1;
    while (n % p == 0) { n /= p; ++cn; }
    an *= cn;
  }
  // use miller-rabin
  if (n is prime) { an *= 2; }
  else if (n is square of prime) { an *= 3; }
  else an *= 4;
  cout << an << '\n';
}