sages and math puzzle


    Hello dear people.

    I want to offer you a rather interesting puzzle, I myself came across it for a long time in an echo of a puzzle, and since then I have not seen it either in my personal life or on the open spaces of Runet. Search on a habr also did not bring result.
    Therefore, I offer it to your community in the form in which he himself first read it.



    TWO WISES

    Some sultan had two sages: Ali-ibn-Wali and Wali-ibn-Ali.
    Wanting to be convinced of their wisdom, the sultan called the sages to himself
    and said: "I conceived two numbers. Both of them are integer, each is larger
    units, but less than a hundred. I multiplied these numbers and I will report the result
    Ali and at the same time Vali I will say the sum of these numbers.
    If you really are as wise as they say about you, you can find out
    original numbers. "
    The sages thought. Ali was the first to break the silence.
    “I don't know these numbers,” he said, bowing his head.
    “I knew that,” Vali said.
    “Then I know these numbers,” Ali rejoiced.
    - Then I know! - exclaimed Vali.
    And the sages informed the defeated king of the numbers he had conceived.
    Define them, too, you reader.
    


    I want to add on my own that it is quite possible to guess these numbers, but the proof of the uniqueness of the solution is not a trivial task and it has a lot of routine and mathematics.

    I would like to publish this puzzle in the “entertaining tasks” section, but I don’t have enough karma.

    oh yes, as it is customary to say: this is my first post on the hub, therefore I apologize for possible violations%)

    upd: Attention! comments already have an answer.
    upd2: as prompted in comments, this task was on the brahames.

    upd3: well, the most complete answer that I know here

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