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COMMENTS
| Abundancy is defined as the ratio of the multiplicative sum-of-divisors function to the integer itself: abund(n) = sigma(n)/n. E.g. abund ( 10 ) = sigma ( 10 ) / 10 = (1+2+5+10) / 10 = 1.8 = 9 / 5.
Integers m and n are friendly iff they have the same abundancy. E.g. abund ( 12 ) = abund ( 234 ) = 7 / 3 ===> 12 and 234 are friends.
Integers which have no friends are called solitary.
"It is believed that 10, 14, 15, 20, 22, 26, 33, 34, 38, 44, 46, 51, 54, 58, 62, 68, 69, 70, 72, 74, 76, 82, 86, 87, 88, 90, 91, 92, 94, 95, 99, 104, 105, 106 and many others are also solitary, although a proof appears to be extremely difficult." Quote from Eric Weisstein. - Frank Adams-Watters (FrankTAW(AT)Netscape.net), Feb 02 2006
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REFERENCES
| Anderson, Claude W. and Hickerson, Dean; Advanced Problem 6020, "Friendly Integers", Amer. Math. Monthly, 1977, V84#1p65-6.
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