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Amongst all pairs of positive numbers with product 256, find those whose sum is the least.

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`xy=256`

`s=x+y`

`s=x+frac{256}{x}`

use AM & GM

`frac{x+frac{256}{x}}{2} geq(x times frac{256}{x}) frac{1}{2}`

`x+frac{256}{x} geq 32`

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