Find an $n$ not a power of a prime such that $n$ has 51 positive divisors

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Find an $n$ not a power of a prime such that $n$ has 51 positive divisors.

I'm not sure where to even start with this question. Any help would be really appreciated.

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$51=3\cdot17$, therefore you can choose any primes $[p,q]$ and calculate $n=(p^{3-1})\cdot(q^{17-1})$.

For example, the smallest such value is $n=3^{3-1}\cdot2^{17-1}=3^{2}\cdot2^{16}=9\cdot65536=589824$.