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Sublime number

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In mathematics, a sublime number is a positive integer which has a perfect number of positive divisors (including itself), and whose positive divisors add up to another perfect number.[1]

The number 12, for example, is a sublime number. It has a perfect number of positive divisors (6): 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12, and the sum of these is again a perfect number: 1+2+3+4+6+12 = 28.

There are only two known sublime numbers, 12 and 6086555670238378989670371734243169622657830773351885970528324860512791691264 (sequence A081357 in the OEIS).[2]

References

  1. ^ MathPages article, http://www.mathpages.com/home/kmath202/kmath202.htm
  2. ^ C. A. Pickover, Wonders of Numbers, Adventures in Mathematics, Mind and Meaning New York: Oxford University Press (2003): 215