Judging from some computer calculations $\lim_{n \rightarrow \infty} n/|\{(a,b):2^a \cdot 3^b\}| \rightarrow \infty$. This is the GAP code I used below; you can modify the initial value of n to quite a large value and it will still work. n:=100000;; count:=0;; for a in [0..LogInt(n,2)] do for b in [0..LogInt(n,3)] do if(2^a*3^b<=n) then count:=count+1;; od; od; Print(Int(n/count),"\n"); Edit: using the above code I searched Sloane's website and uncovered [this][1]. Specifically, these are called *3-smooth* numbers. There's formulae there too. [1]: http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/A071521