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Removable sine factors keeping natural roots

High school · ●●●○○ 50 pts

The left-hand side of the equation sin⁡πxsin⁡2πxsin⁡3πx⋯sin⁡2015πx=0\sin \frac{\pi}{x} \sin \frac{2\pi}{x} \sin \frac{3\pi}{x} \cdots \sin \frac{2015\pi}{x}=0 is a product of factors sin⁡nπx\sin \frac{n\pi}{x} for n=1,2,…,2015n=1,2,\ldots,2015. What is the maximum number of these factors that can be crossed out so that the number of natural-number roots of the equation does not change?

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