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A074902 Known friendly numbers. 10
6, 12, 24, 28, 30, 40, 42, 56, 60, 66, 78, 80, 84, 96, 102, 108, 114, 120, 132, 135, 138, 140, 150, 168, 174, 186, 200, 204, 210, 222, 224, 228, 234, 240, 246, 252, 258, 264, 270, 273, 276, 280, 282, 294, 300, 308, 312, 318, 330, 348, 354, 360, 364, 366, 372 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

The sequence is not known to be complete up to 372, since there are many small numbers, including 10, 14, 15 and 20, which have not been proved to be solitary. If any other numbers up to 372 are friendly, the smallest corresponding values of m are > 10^30.

A positive integer n is 'friendly' if abundancy(n) = abundancy(m) for some positive integer m not equal to n, where abundancy(n) = sigma(n)/n (cf. A000203); otherwise n is 'solitary'. (The name "friendly" is also sometimes mistakenly used with other meanings; cf. A063990 and A007770.)

All perfect numbers are friendly numbers, but they are only friendly with each other (a perfect number being defined as having abundancy index of 2.) [From Daniel Forgues (squid(AT)zensearch.com), Jun 23 2009]

REFERENCES

Claude W. Anderson and Dean Hickerson, Problem 6020: Friendly Integers, Amer. Math. Monthly 84 (1977) 65-66

LINKS

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Friendly Pair

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Friendly Number

EXAMPLE

24 is in the sequence since abundancy(24) = abundancy(91963648) = 5/2.

CROSSREFS

Union of A050972 and A050973. Cf. A014567.

Sequence in context: A081512 A096387 A094185 * A096366 A188158 A061822

Adjacent sequences:  A074899 A074900 A074901 * A074903 A074904 A074905

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Sep 15 2002

EXTENSIONS

Edited by Dean Hickerson (dean.hickerson(AT)yahoo.com), Sep 19 2002

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