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In mathematics, an arithmetic number is an integer for which the arithmetic mean of its positive divisors, is an integer. It is known that the natural density of such numbers is 1:[1] indeed, the proportion of numbers less than X which are not arithmetic is asymptotically[2]

where c = 2 √ log 2 + o(1).

Notes

  1. ^ Guy (2004) p.76
  2. ^ Bateman, Paul T.; Erdős, Paul; Pomerance, Carl; Straus, E.G. (1981). "The arithmetic mean of the divisors of an integer". In Knopp, M.I. (ed.). Analytic number theory, Proc. Conf., Temple Univ., 1980 (PDF). Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Vol. 899. Springer-Verlag. pp. 197–220. Zbl 0478.10027.

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