Can the sum of two distinct factorizations of a number be equal?

The sums can match, for example $\,144 = 8 \cdot 6 \cdot 3 = 4 \cdot 4 \cdot 9\,$ with $\,8+6+3=4+4+9\,$.

Morevover, there exist such with the same sum e.g. $\,1680 = 4 \cdot 20 \cdot 21 = 5 \cdot 12 \cdot 28 = 7 \cdot 8 \cdot 30\,$ with $\,4+20+21=5+12+28=7+8+30\,$.

n = 2000  # upper bound of range to check
k = 2     # minimum number of matching triples that get listed
m = 2     # change to 1 to allow unit factors
o = 0     # change to 1 to disallow identical factors in a triple

px = [{} for i in range(n)]
for a in range(m, n):
  for b in range(a + o, n // a):
    for c in range(b + o, n // ( a * b)):
       p = a * b * c; s = a + b + c
       px[p][s] = px[p].get(s, []) + [(a, b, c)]

for i in range((o+1)**3, n):
  for j in sorted(px[i].keys()):
    if len(px[i][j]) >= k:
      print(str(i) + "\t+" + str(j) + "\t" + str(px[i][j])[1:-1])

Some more:

• smallest number that has $3$ sets of $3$ triples each that sum to different values:

$$ \begin{matrix} 5400 &= 5 \cdot 30 \cdot 36 &= 6 \cdot 20 \cdot 45 &= 9 \cdot 12 \cdot 50 &\quad\quad \style{font-family:inherit}{\text{sum}} &= 71\\ &= 5 \cdot 24 \cdot 45 &= 6 \cdot 18 \cdot 50 &= 10 \cdot 10 \cdot 54 & & = 74\\ &= 4 \cdot 30 \cdot 45 &= 5 \cdot 20 \cdot 54 &= 9 \cdot 10 \cdot 60 & &= 79\\ \end{matrix} $$

• smallest number that has $4$ sets of $4$ triples each that sum to different values:

$$ \small\begin{matrix} 166320 &= 20 \cdot 77 \cdot 108 &= 22 \cdot 63 \cdot 120 &= 24 \cdot 55 \cdot 126 &= 28 \cdot 45 \cdot 132 &\quad \style{font-family:inherit}{\text{sum}} &= 205\\ &= 16 \cdot 99 \cdot 105 &= 18 \cdot 70 \cdot 132 &= 21 \cdot 55 \cdot 144 &= 30 \cdot 36 \cdot 154 & & = 220\\ &= 11 \cdot 105 \cdot 144 &= 14 \cdot 66 \cdot 180 &= 16 \cdot 55 \cdot 189 &= 20 \cdot 42 \cdot 198 & & = 260 \\ &= 5 \cdot 154 \cdot 216 &= 6 \cdot 105 \cdot 264 &= 8 \cdot 70 \cdot 297 &= 21 \cdot 24 \cdot 330 & & = 375 \end{matrix} \\ $$

I thought it might be fun to write a Mathematica code to find instances of same-sum factorizations. Using the following code, you can find integers such that num different sets of len different same-length factorizations of an integer less than max have the same sum. It omits multiples of lower cases on the grounds that those are boring.

The smallest integers with increasingly large sets of different same-sum factorizations are:
72, 432, 3456, 5760, 7200, 12096, 17280, 21600, ...

The smallest integers with pairs of increasingly large sets of different same-sum factorizations are:
144, 720, 2160, 5040, 8640, 10080, 14400, 25920, 30240, ...

The smallest integers with triples of increasingly large sets of different same-sum factorizations are:
144, 1440, 2880, 7200, 8640, 15120, 17280, 30240, 30240, ...

30240 is an interesting case with 6 different same-sum factorization 9-sets, 4 10-sets, an 11-set and a 12-set.

factorizationList[n_Integer?PrimeQ] := {{n}}
factorizationList[n_Integer] := 
  (factorizationList[n] = 
    Union[Append[Join@@
      (#/{L__List}:>Sort/@Flatten[Outer[Join,L,1],1]&/@
        Map[factorizationList,{#,n/#}&/@
           #[[-Ceiling[Length[#]/2];;-2]]&[Divisors[n]],{2}]),{n}]])
Block[{num=2,len=10,max=25000},
  DeleteDuplicates[DeleteCases[
    Table[{n,Select[GatherBy[factorizationList[n],
      {Total[#],Length[#]}&],
      Length[#]>=num&]},
      {n,max}],
  {_, L_ /; Length[L] < num}],IntegerQ[#2[[1]]/#1[[1]]]&]]

Output:

{{21600,{{{2,3,9,20,20},{2,3,10,15,24},{2,3,12,12,25},{2,5,5,18,24},
          {2,5,8,9,30},{2,6,6,10,30},{3,3,8,10,30},{3,4,4,18,25},
          {3,4,5,12,30},{3,5,5,9,32}}}}}