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Searching on the boundary of abundance for odd weird numbers

Wenjie Fang

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Weird numbers are abundant numbers that are not pseudoperfect. Since their introduction, the existence of odd weird numbers has been an open problem. In this work, we describe our computational effort to search for odd weird numbers, which shows their non-existence up to $10^{21}$. We also searched up to $10^{28}$ for numbers with an abundance below $10^{14}$, to no avail. Our approach to speed up the search can be viewed as an application of reverse search in the domain of combinatorial optimization, and may be useful for other similar quest for natural numbers with special properties that depend crucially on their factorization.

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hal-03833611 , version 1 (28-10-2022)

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Wenjie Fang. Searching on the boundary of abundance for odd weird numbers. 2022. ⟨hal-03833611⟩
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