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- From: simms@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (dan)
- Subject: Re: 'Perfect' numbers
- Message-ID: <Bvzsy7.B9E@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- References: <1992Oct8.132001.29075@ifi.uio.no> <FYU7JLK@math.fu-berlin.de>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 05:08:16 GMT
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- guckes@math.fu-berlin.de (Sven Guckes) writes:
-
- >dagjo@ifi.uio.no (Dag Espolin Johnson) writes:
- >>Does someone have a list of the first numbers (as many as possible) that are
- >>'perfect'?
- >>
- >>With 'Perfect number' I mean those numbers such that if you add together all
- >>the numbers that is divideable with the numer, you get the number.
- >>
- >>The first one is 6 (1+2+3 = 6)
- >>The next one is 28 (1+2+4+7+14 = 28)
- >>If this is a FAQ, please tell me where I can find the answer.
- >"It's in the FAQ!" - Damn, it isn't. (I just checked in news.answers.)
-
- >If I remember correctly then the following are perfect numbers, too:
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- >496
- >2128
-
- >Unfortunately I don't have a reference at hand.
-
- 496 is, but 2128 isn't or at least the program I wrote says it isn't..
- ..it has chugged out past 10,000 without finding one ....does anyone
- know an easier way of telling if a number is not perfect than just
- plowing along and finding the sum of its divisors? ..i thought about
- it for as long as I could without coming up with anytihng..like
- if i know which of the numbers less than n are perfect or not, is
- there an easy way to tell if n is perfect? thanks.
-
- dan
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