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Comment by adrian_b

1 hour ago

True, but there are as many 64-bit integers as pairs of 32-bit integers.

Therefore the fact that relatively few 64-bit numbers are products of 32-bit integers means that a lot of pairs of 32-bit integers give by multiplication the same product.

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