If a "concept inventor program" comes up with some property of numbers that mathematicians have not so far given any thought to, it could mean EITHER
I think it's too early to say whether this notion of "refactorable numbers" is actually useful in number theory, or whether it's a mere curiosity that doesn't go anywhere. My money's on the latter.
Too early? It was discovered 16 years ago. Now it has it's own Wikipedia article and some other hits, so someone must have found it interesting.
But yes this is the biggest problem with automated discovery, that there is no definition of "interesting". Automated discovery systems tend to produce random garbage after enough time. One paper defined it as things which are difficult to prove, and so it discards trivial and obvious stuff (EDIT: better paper on this subject.)
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