TITLE: A property of 47 with respect to partitions into five parts
QUESTION [9 upvotes]: Is 47 the largest number which has a unique partition into five parts (15, 10, 10, 6, 6), no two of which are relatively prime?

REPLY [6 votes]: Here is a quick demonstration that it is effectively solvable for any number of parts.
A sufficiently large number that has exactly one partition with the property must be prime.  Otherwise we can write it as $n = a \cdot b$ with $1 < a \leq b$ and partition $b$ into $k$ parts in two different ways, then multiply them by $a$ to get two different partitions of $n$ with the property.
Now suppose $n = 6 \cdot m + 35$.  A sufficiently large $m$ has two different partitions into $k - 1$ parts such that each part of each partition is divisible by either $5$ or $7$.  Multiplying by $6$ and appending $35$ then gives two different partitions of $n$ with the property.
On the other hand, suppose $n = 6 \cdot m + 55 = 6 \cdot m + 5 \cdot 11$.  The same logic above applies, and that covers all the cases.  Filling in some more details results in a simple formula for an upper bound in terms of $k$: the first part says if $n$ is composite then $n \lt (k+2)^2$, and the second part chases down the primes relatively more quickly placing the largest one in $6 \cdot k + O(1)$.
More generally still, we can require that the pairwise $\text{gcd}$ of the parts be greater than or equal to some $d \ge 2$ (so the question of $47$ corresponds to the case $d = 2$ and $k = 5$).  An effective upper bound on unique solutions can still be obtained: we just have to carry out the above argument for all congruence classes mod $d$, in each case representing the remainder as a semiprime with prime factors larger than $d$.
EDIT: That led me to the following even simpler version, working mod $2$ instead of mod $6$: if $m$ has two different partitions into $5$ parts, then $n = 2 \cdot m$ has two different partitions into $5$ parts, no two parts of which are relatively prime.  So $n < 2 \cdot (5+2) = 14$ if $n$ is even.  Otherwise, suppose $n = 2 \cdot m + 15$, and observe that
$18 = 3+3+6+6 = 3+3+3+9$,
$19 = 3+5+5+6 = 3 + 3 + 3 + 10$, and
$20 = 3+3+5+9 = 3+5+6+6$
to conclude $m \le 17$ and $n \le 49$.