68.Ten Chips Into Piles
★★★puzzlesJane Street
A stack of 10 identical chips is to be split into one or more piles. What is the largest possible product of the pile sizes?
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A pile of one is pure waste. Then ask whether a large pile can always be cut in two without lowering the product, and see which sizes survive that argument.
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