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- Factor Sums
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- This is a starting point for some investigative work.
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- If you choose <Factor Sums>, the Main window is closed and a special window
- is opened. Type the number in the writable icon at the top and either press
- <Return> or click on <OK>.
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- !Numbers will then calculate the sum of all the factors of your number
- excluding the number itself and then do the whole thing all over again with
- the next number. It will continue like this until it reaches a prime and
- goes to 1, it reaches a Perfect number and repeats itself, or you click on
- <Pause> or press <Escape>.
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- If the number gets very big (Greater than 2147483647) everything slows down
- considerably as the routine starts to use Nick Craig-Wood's <Numbers> module
- which can deal with very large integers.
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