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I would highly recommend that you drop the lower limit on ancestors to 2 (because 2 is a relevant ancestor, given the results you are getting) and fix your code so it doesn't crash when you do that. --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 14:38, 26 February 2015 (UTC)
Read the task description, again. All the necessary information are stated in the description.
Some information are clearly stated, some others are somehow hidden (i.e. a prime factor is not its own ancestor nor its own descendant).
Also, the title clearly states "allocate descendants to their ancestors", that is, each descendant is counted for 1.
46 is a descendant of 25, but 46 is also the ancestor of 129. Is this a reason to exclude 46 from the descendants of 25 ? Of course not.
Where ? Give me an example, because there is no ancestor smaller than 5.
5 has no ancestor and 1, 2, 3 and 4 do not have any ancestor nor descendant.
I think, you are out of context, I posted a task, but, I do not impose a solution.
2 is not a relevant ancestor, because 2 is not a ancestor at all. But, if you want to consider 2, 3 and 4 as ancestors, you are free to post an alternate task.
--[[User:Old man|Old man]] ([[User talk:Old man|talk]]) 08:30, 2 March 2015 (UTC)
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