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A211677
First number k whose value of sigma(k)/k appears n times.
2
1, 28, 496, 1638, 24384, 2886100, 13035330, 29410290, 4426793280
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
The values of sigma(k)/k are 1, 2, 2, 8/3, 8/3, 96/35, 32/9, 32/9, 32/7. Note that these values are nondecreasing. Is that always the case? In the table below, all numbers in the same row are friendly to each other.
a(10) <= 27477725184. a(11) <= 88071903612. a(12) <= A027687(12). - Donovan Johnson, Aug 06 2012
For n>1, these are the smallest numbers to appear consecutively (n-1) times in A050973. - Michel Marcus, Jan 28 2014
LINKS
Claude W. Anderson and Dean Hickerson, Problem 6020: Friendly Integers, Amer. Math. Monthly 84 (1977) pp. 65-66.
Achim Flammenkamp, Multiply Perfect Numbers (sigma(k)/k is an integer)
Carl Pomerance, Multiply perfect numbers, Mersenne primes and effective computability, Math. Ann. 226 (1977), 195-206.
Eric W. Weisstein, Friendly number
Eric W. Weisstein, Friendly pair
Wikipedia, Friendly number
EXAMPLE
These are the values of k such that sigma(k)/k appears n times:
n k values
1: 1
2: 6, 28
3: 6, 28, 496
4: 84, 270, 1488, 1638
5: 84, 270, 1488, 1638, 24384
6: 210, 17360, 43400, 284480, 2229500, 2886100
7: 3780, 66960, 167400, 406224, 1097280, 6656832, 13035330
8: 3780, 66960, 167400, 406224, 1097280, 6656832, 13035330, 29410290
9: 164989440, 270138960, 318729600, 326781000, 481572000, 623397600, 675347400, 995248800, 4426793280 - Donovan Johnson, Aug 06 2012
These numbers appear in A211679.
CROSSREFS
Cf. A000203 (sigma), A050973, A211679.
Sequence in context: A240463 A140107 A028170 * A076172 A004336 A079598
KEYWORD
nonn,hard,more
AUTHOR
T. D. Noe, May 09 2012
EXTENSIONS
a(7)-a(8) from Donovan Johnson, May 10 2012
a(9) from Michel Marcus and Donovan Johnson, Aug 06 2012
STATUS
approved