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Some results concerning quasiperfect numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 April 2009

Peter Hagis Jr
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics Temple University Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19122, U.S.A.
Graeme L. Cohen
Affiliation:
School of Mathematical Sciences The New South Wales Institute of Technology Broadway, New South Wales 2007, Australia
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Abstract

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New methods are introduced here to show that if n is a quasiperfect number and ω(n) the number of its distinct prime factors, then ω(n) ≥ 7 and n > 1035, and if further 3 ∤ n then ω(n) ≥ 9 and n > 1040.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1982

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