OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Below 1000000 there are only 7 such composite numbers, compared with more than 16000 primes.
a(13) > 10^13. - Giovanni Resta, Jul 11 2013
REFERENCES
J.-M. De Koninck, Ces nombres qui nous fascinent, Entry 104, p. 37, Ellipses, Paris 2008.
EXAMPLE
n=104, sigma(104)+6 = 210+6 = 216 = sigma(104+6) = sigma(110).
a(4) = 1415 = 5*283, 1415+6 = 1421 = 7*7*29:
sigma(1415) = 1+5+283+1415 = 1704,
sigma(1421) = 1+7+29+49+203+1421 = 1710 = sigma(1415)+6.
PROG
(PARI) forcomposite(n=9, 1e7, if(sigma(n)+6==sigma(n+6), print1(n", "))) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Feb 14 2013
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,more
AUTHOR
Labos Elemer, May 23 2000
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Jud McCranie, May 25 2000
New definition from Reinhard Zumkeller, Jan 27 2009
Edited by N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 31 2009 at the suggestion of R. J. Mathar.
a(12) from Giovanni Resta, Jul 11 2013
STATUS
approved