OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Although the abundance A(n) = sigma(n) - 2n is increasing, the (relative) abundancy sigma(n)/n is decreasing, except at indices {3, 6, 8, 15, 16, 19, 24 ...}. No term has larger abundancy than 2 + 2/35, that of a(1). - M. F. Hasler, Nov 14 2018
LINKS
Douglas E. Iannucci, On primitive weird numbers of the form 2^k*p*q, arXiv:1504.02761 [math.NT], 2015.
Giuseppe Melfi, On the conditional infiniteness of primitive weird numbers, Journal of Number Theory, Vol. 147, Feb 2015, pgs 508-514.
Wikipedia, Weird number
EXAMPLE
MATHEMATICA
(* copy the terms from A002975, assign them equal to 'lst' and then *) f[n_] := DivisorSigma[1, n] - 2n; k = 1; lsu = {}; mx = 0; While[k < 647, ds = f@ lst[[k]]; If[ds > mx, mx = ds; AppendTo[lsu, lst[[k]]]]; k++]; lsu
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Douglas E. Iannucci and Robert G. Wilson v, Dec 14 2015
STATUS
approved