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On perfect and near-perfect numbers

Number Theory 2012-02-20 v3

Abstract

We call positive integer n a near-perfect number, if it is sum of all its proper divisors, except of one of them ("redundant divisor"). We prove an Euclid-like theorem for near-perfect numbers and obtain some other results for them.

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@article{arxiv.1011.6160,
  title  = {On perfect and near-perfect numbers},
  author = {Vladimir Shevelev},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1011.6160},
  year   = {2012}
}

Comments

4 pages. At the beginning of 2012, Donavan Johnson found the first odd near-perfect number

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