Divisor Count of 168

Example of Use of $\tau$ Function

 * $\tau \left({168}\right) = 16$

where $\tau$ denotes the $\tau$ Function.

Proof
From Tau Function from Prime Decomposition:
 * $\displaystyle \tau \left({n}\right) = \prod_{j \mathop = 1}^r \left({k_j + 1}\right)$

where:
 * $r$ denotes the number of distinct prime factors in the prime decomposition of $n$
 * $k_j$ denotes the multiplicity of the $j$th prime in the prime decomposition of $n$.

We have that:
 * $168 = 2^3 \times 3 \times 7$

Thus:
 * $\tau \left({168}\right) = \tau \left({2^3 \times 3^1 \times 7^1}\right) = \left({3 + 1}\right) \left({1 + 1}\right) \left({1 + 1}\right) = 16$

The divisors of $168$ can be enumerated as:
 * $1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 8, 12, 14, 21, 24, 28, 42, 56, 84, 168$