> What is the smallest known odd perfect number?
> >
> > Is too! You could prove me wrong? There is a
> > (large) lower bound, and no known upper bound.
> >
> Do you have any idea about this lower bound?
At least 10^300. See section 5 of:
http://www.utm.edu/research/primes/mersen
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
>
> David Hobby wrote:
> >
> What is the smallest known odd perfect number?
> >
> > Is too! You could prove me wrong? There is a
> > (large) lower bound, and no known upper bound.
> >
> Do you have any idea about this lower bound?
>
> > But you did catch that I was
David Hobby wrote:
>
What is the smallest known odd perfect number?
>
> Is too! You could prove me wrong? There is a
> (large) lower bound, and no known upper bound.
>
Do you have any idea about this lower bound?
> But you did catch that I was joking?
>
Yes, of course. I am not yet humour
Ronn Blankenship asked:
>
> Been reading Rudy Rucker's _Infinity and the Mind_, have you?
>
No
Alberto the one liner
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Alberto Monteiro wrote:
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> David Hobby wrote:
> >
> >> Uh? Really? The last time I read about it, the only
> >
> > KNOWN
> >
> >> perfect numbers were the few that came from...
> >> 2^(n-1) (2^n - 1)
> >
> Right. I should h
At 06:53 PM 9/2/03 +, Alberto Monteiro wrote:
David Hobby wrote:
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>> Uh? Really? The last time I read about it, the only
>
> KNOWN
>
>> perfect numbers were the few that came from...
>> 2^(n-1) (2^n - 1)
>
Right. I should have written the known part. It
David Hobby wrote:
>
>> Uh? Really? The last time I read about it, the only
>
> KNOWN
>
>> perfect numbers were the few that came from...
>> 2^(n-1) (2^n - 1)
>
Right. I should have written the known part. It was
yet unknown if there were odd perfect numbers.
OTO
Alberto Monteiro wrote:
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> David Hobby wrote about 28:
> >
> > It is nominally the number of days in a month.
> >It is a perfect number, the only even perfect number that
> >is a multiple of 7. (There are some LARGE odd perfect numbers
> >that are
David Hobby wrote about 28:
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> It is nominally the number of days in a month.
>It is a perfect number, the only even perfect number that
>is a multiple of 7. (There are some LARGE odd perfect numbers
>that are multiples of 7, but they don't count. : ) )
>
Uh? Reall
