What are antiprime numbers (highly composite numbers)?

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Akilan Sankaran, 14, is on his school's varsity track team and plays the piano, the flute and drums — and yet somehow he still found time to devise a computer program that could speed up some of your favorite apps.

That program won Akilan, who's from Albuquerque, N.M., the $25,000 Samueli Foundation Prize, the top award in the Broadcom MASTERS, a highly competitive science and engineering competition for middle school students.

What's an antiprime number, aka highly composite number?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number
 
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Astronuc said:
What's an antiprime number, aka highly composite number?

Yes, I think so.

Here's a Numberphile about highly composite numbers [anti-primes] (this predates Akilan's project, but should still provide a little background):