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- From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
- Subject: Re: 'Perfect' numbers
- Message-ID: <1992Oct12.052659.30876@mp.cs.niu.edu>
- Organization: Northern Illinois University
- References: <1992Oct8.132001.29075@ifi.uio.no> <FYU7JLK@math.fu-berlin.de> <Bvzsy7.B9E@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1992 05:26:59 GMT
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- In article <Bvzsy7.B9E@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> simms@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (dan) writes:
- >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'?
-
- >>"It's in the FAQ!" - Damn, it isn't. (I just checked in news.answers.)
-
- > 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?
-
- It probably should be in the FAQ.
-
- Even perfect numbers are exactly those numbers of the form
-
- n-1 n
- 2 (2 - 1)
-
- n
- where n is such that 2 - 1 is prime (called a Mersenne prime). There
- are no known odd perfect numbers.
-
-