Excellent work parseljc! :tup:
Obviously this is a problem that spans the decades. Now someone just needs to email anabolik back in 2002:
"if you solve this, please email me at Yahoo!..."
Hopefully anabolik wasn't on a short deadline or anything. This is like math archeology. Drudging up ancient society's math problems and solving them. Hmmm... i'm seeing a TV show in the making.
It is not 2 and 2, Product guy would know his number immediately since 2 and 2 are the only valid factors for 4. ((2,2),(4,1)) and "1" is not a valid choice.