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Sunday, 3 January 2021

Hemiperfect Numbers

The so-called hemiperfect numbers relate a concept called abundancy that I've dealt with in two previous posts:

I'll define the abundancy of a number n once again to be the ratio of the sum-of-divisors of n to n itself. It is given by the formula:σ1(n)n where σ1(n) is the divisor functionNote that abundancy may also be defined as:σ1(n) where σ1(n) represents the sum of the reciprocals of the divisors of nA multiperfect (sometimes multiply perfect) number is a number whose abundancy is a whole number:σ1(n)n=k with k an integer 2We can refer to such a number as k-perfect with 2-perfect numbers being the perfect numbers 6, 28, 496, 8128 etc.

Today I turned 26208 days old and discovered that this number is a member of OEIS A159907:


  A159907

Numbers n with half-integral abundancy index such that:                  σ1(n)n=k+12 with integer k


Numbers of this sort are termed hemiperfect. The sequence, up to 26208, consists of 2, 24, 4320, 4680, 26208 where:
σ1(2)2=32=1+12σ1(24)24=6024=2+12σ1(4320)4320=151204320=3+12σ1(4680)4680=163804680=3+12σ1(26208)26208=9172826208=3+12After this the numbers get bigger quickly. The next hemiperfect number is 8910720 which has an abundancy of 9/2 and is termed 9-hemiperfect. Similarly, 2 is 3-hemiperfect, 24 is 5-hemiperfect and 4320, 4680 and 26208 are 7-hemiperfect.

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