Problem 42889. Should Mr McNugget even get out of bed today?

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Jan Orwat on 10 Jun 2016

This series reminded me of a Numberphile video: https://youtu.be/vNTSugyS038

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Peng Liu on 11 Jun 2016

It is a good idea to apply an upper bound! It seems that the upBound becomes an underestimate of the upper bound for test case 2.

Jan Orwat on 11 Jun 2016

Yes, I was looking for something cody-friendly :). I forgot it works in this form iff gcd(n(1),n(2))==1.

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