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A201186 Incorrect list of perfect numbers from Robert Recorde's Whetstone of Witte. 0

%I #15 Jul 02 2015 02:41:03

%S 6,28,496,8128,130816,2096128,33550336,536854528

%N Incorrect list of perfect numbers from Robert Recorde's Whetstone of Witte.

%C In this list, only items 6, 28, 496, 8128 and 33550336 are perfect numbers.

%D Jack Williams, Robert Recorde Tudor Polymath, Expositor and Practitioner of Computation, Springer, 2011, page 176.

%H Robert Recorde, <a href="http://archive.org/details/TheWhetstoneOfWitte">The Whetstone of Witte</a>, whiche is the seconde parte of Arithmeteke: containing the extraction of rootes; the cossike practise, with the rule of equation; and the workes of Surde Nombers, London, 1557. See <a href="http://archive.org/stream/TheWhetstoneOfWitte#page/n23/mode/2up/">p. 24</a>.

%Y Cf. A000396 (perfect numbers), A079598.

%K nonn,fini,full

%O 1,1

%A _Olivier GĂ©rard_, Nov 28 2011

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