From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sat May 18 2002 - 00:12:05 MDT
Alejandro Dubrovsky wrote:
>On Sat, 2002-05-18 at 13:41, spike66 wrote:
>
>>My odd nearly perfect number is 838553644228755.
>>I get a sum of factors of 838553644228461.
>>
>ignore my last message, i had the wrong stop point. sum of factors here
>came up 838553644228460 (i'm not counting the 1 as a factor), seems
>giga-damn-good to me.
>Alejandro
>
For the purposes of perfect number hunting, 1 is a factor.
(6 is a perfect number, 3+2+1.) Also by this definition,
one can always find an even number that is arbitrarily
close to perfect, since the sum of the factors
of any number 2^n is 2^n-1.
So shall the extropian odd-nearly-perfect-number-hunting
team claim the world record? spike
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