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A funny metric over $\mathbb{N}$

$\DeclareMathOperator{\lcm}{lcm}$ Fiddling with numbers I realized that for positive integers $x$ and $y$, the quantity $$\Vert x,y \Vert=\frac{\lcm(x,y)}{\gcd(x,y)}$$ has these properties: $\Vert x,...
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