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Sociable numbers: smallest member of each cycle (conjectured).
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%I #62 Sep 18 2021 17:44:12

%S 12496,14316,1264460,2115324,2784580,4938136,7169104,18048976,

%T 18656380,28158165,46722700,81128632,174277820,209524210,330003580,

%U 498215416,805984760,1095447416,1236402232,1276254780,1799281330

%N Sociable numbers: smallest member of each cycle (conjectured).

%C Numbers belonging to aliquot cycles of length greater than 2.

%C There is no proof that 564 (for example) is missing from this sequence (cf. A122726). - _N. J. A. Sloane_, Sep 17 2021

%C The lengths of the corresponding aliquot cycles are given by A052470. - _Michel Marcus_, Nov 15 2013

%D R. K. Guy, Unsolved Problems Number Theory, B7.

%D P. Poulet, Parfaits, amiables et extensions, Editions Stevens, Bruxelles, 1918.

%D D. Wells, The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers, pp. 174 Penguin Books 1987.

%H Jeppe Stig Nielsen, <a href="/A003416/b003416.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..53</a>

%H V. E. Hoggart, Jr., <a href="/A003416/a003416.pdf">Letters to N. J. A. Sloane, 1974-1975</a>

%H INRIA Algorithms Project, <a href="http://ecs.inria.fr/services/structure?nbr=112">Encyclopedia of Combinatorial Structures 112</a>

%H D. Moews, <a href="http://djm.cc/amicable.html">Perfect, amicable and sociable numbers</a>

%H D. Moews, <a href="http://djm.cc/sociable.txt">A list of currently known aliquot cycles of length greater than 2</a> [This list is not known to be complete.]

%H J. O. M. Pedersen, <a href="http://amicable.homepage.dk/tables.htm">Tables of Aliquot Cycles</a> [Broken link]

%H J. O. M. Pedersen, <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20140502102524/http://amicable.homepage.dk/tables.htm">Tables of Aliquot Cycles</a> [Via Internet Archive Wayback-Machine]

%H J. O. M. Pedersen, <a href="/A063990/a063990.pdf">Tables of Aliquot Cycles</a> [Cached copy, pdf file only]

%H Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, <a href="http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SociableNumbers.html">Sociable Numbers.</a>

%Y Cf. A052470, A072890, A072891, A122726.

%K nonn

%O 1,1

%A _N. J. A. Sloane_

%E Incorrect g.f. deleted by _N. J. A. Sloane_, Sep 20 2008

%E Added "conjectured" to definition. - _N. J. A. Sloane_, Sep 17 2021