Breeding amicable numbers in abundance
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Abstract:
We give some new methods for the constructive search for amicable number pairs. Our numerical experiments using these methods produced a total of 3501 new amicable pairs of a very special form. They provide some experimental evidence for the infinity of such pairs.References
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- © Copyright 1986 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Math. Comp. 46 (1986), 281-293
- MSC: Primary 11A25; Secondary 11Y50
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1986-0815849-1
- MathSciNet review: 815849