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- From: dagjo@ifi.uio.no (Dag Espolin Johnson)
- Subject: Re: 'Perfect' numbers SUMMARY
- Message-ID: <1992Oct13.125124.23753@ifi.uio.no>
- Sender: dagjo@ifi.uio.no (Dag Espolin Johnson)
- Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
- References: <1992Oct8.132001.29075@ifi.uio.no>
- Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1992 12:51:24 GMT
- Lines: 58
- Originator: dagjo@munken.ifi.uio.no
-
-
- Thanks to all of you that responded to my question about perfect numbers.
-
- First, from Martin Gemmel <mgemmel@cs.vu.nl> i got this list:
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- 1. 6
- 2. 28
- 3. 496
- 4. 8128
- 5. 33550336
- 6. 8589869056
- 7. 137438691328
- 8. 2305843008139952128
- 9. 2658455991569831744654692615953842176
- 10. 191561942608236107294793378084303638130997321548169216
- 11. 13164036458569648337239753460458722910223472318386943117783728128
- 12. 14474011154664524427946373126085988481573677491474835889066354349
- 131199152128 (77 digits)
- 13. 23562723457267347065789548996709904988477547858392600710143027597
- 50633728317862223973036553960260056136025556646250327017505289257
- 80432155433824984287771524270103944969186640286445341280338314397
- 90236838624033171435922356643219703101720713163527487298747400647
- 801939587165936401087419375649057918549492160555646976 (314 digits)
-
- Several of you told me that:
-
- An even number is perfect if and only if it can be written in the form
- 2^(n-1)*(2^n-1), where (2^n-1) is a prime. It is not found any odd perfect
- numbers, but it is NOT prooved that all perfevt numbers are even.
-
- 2^(n-1) 2^n-1 product
- -------------------------------
- n=1 1 1 1 is not a prime
- n=2 2 3 6
- n=3 4 7 28
- n=4 8 15 15 is not a prime
- n=5 16 31 496
- n=6 32 63 63 is not a prime
- n=7 64 127 8128
- : : : :
-
- It is also true that (2^n-1) is NOT a prime if n is NOT a prime. But, if n IS
- a prime, you are NOT SURE that (2^n-1) is a prime.
-
- Also, from David G Radcliffe <radcliff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> i got this list of
- n's where (2^n-1) is a known prime:
-
- 2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19, 31, 61, 89, 107, 127, 521, 607, 1279, 2203, 2281,
- 3217, 4253, 4423, 9689, 9941, 11213, 19937, 21701, 23209, 44497, 86243,
- 110503, 132049, 216091, 756839.
-
- And, finaly I looked in Guinness Book of Records, and it says that it is 35
- known perfect numbers.
-
- If some of you have any more information on perfect numbers, or find any
- incorrects in this document, please tell me.
-
- Dag Espolin Johnson - dagjo@ifi.uio.no
-