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 February 2nd, 2017, 08:38 PM #1 Member     Joined: Oct 2016 From: labenon Posts: 33 Thanks: 4 Perfect Numbers I was searching some mathematical formulas and come across this question. Can any one help me to solve this.? I studied that a perfect number is one which equals the sum of its proper divisors. For example: the number 18 is abundant since 18 is less than 1 + 2 +3 + 6 + 9 =21, the number 15 is deficient since 15 is greater than 1+3+5 =9 and 6 =1+ 2 + 3 is perfect. Then I found the equation to find perfect even numbers : m = 2^(p-1) * (2^p - 1) , where p is prime number. Now the main question is from this equation : Can we find how many even & odd perfect numbers are there?
 February 2nd, 2017, 08:46 PM #2 Senior Member   Joined: Aug 2012 Posts: 1,780 Thanks: 482 It's an open question as to whether any odd perfect numbers exist. This is a famous problem in math. Here's an article about it. They've checked up to $10^{300}$ and not found any. That's $1$ with $300$ zeros. But compared to all the natural numbers that there are, it's just a drop in the bucket. Odd Perfect Numbers: Do They Exist? Thanks from AshBox
 February 3rd, 2017, 03:53 AM #3 Newbie   Joined: Dec 2016 From: United Kingdom Posts: 14 Thanks: 1 I think this is still debatable questions, still I have found one article which can help you to solve this: Odd Perfect Number -- from Wolfram MathWorld
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 Originally Posted by SophiaRivera007 I think this is still debatable questions, still I have found one article which can help you to solve this: Odd Perfect Number -- from Wolfram MathWorld
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 Originally Posted by AshBox I was searching some mathematical formulas and come across this question. Can any one help me to solve this.? I studied that a perfect number is one which equals the sum of its proper divisors. For example: the number 18 is abundant since 18 is less than 1 + 2 +3 + 6 + 9 =21, the number 15 is deficient since 15 is greater than 1+3+5 =9 and 6 =1+ 2 + 3 is perfect. Then I found the equation to find perfect even numbers : m = 2^(p-1) * (2^p - 1) , where p is prime number. Now the main question is from this equation : Can we find how many even & odd perfect numbers are there?
Does the equation (m=....) generate all even perfect numbers?

 February 5th, 2017, 02:28 PM #6 Global Moderator   Joined: Dec 2006 Posts: 18,718 Thanks: 1533 Yes. Note that 2^p - 1 needs to be prime as well for m to be a perfect number. It's not known whether the number of perfect numbers is finite.
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 Originally Posted by mathman Does the equation (m=....) generate all even perfect numbers?
Yes, absolutely this works and provide you perfect numbers.

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