Kalpana Kalpana (Editor)

Erdős–Nicolas number

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Publication year
  
1975

First terms
  
24, 2016, 8190

Subsequence of
  
Abundant numbers

Largest known term
  
1371332329173024768

Erdős–Nicolas number

Named after
  
Paul Erdős, Jean-Louis Nicolas

Author of publication
  
Erdős, P., Nicolas, J. L.

In number theory, an Erdős–Nicolas number is a number that is not perfect, but that equals one of the partial sums of its divisors. That is, a number n is Erdős–Nicolas number when there exists another number m such that

d n ,   d m d = n .

The first ten Erdős–Nicolas numbers are

24, 2016, 8190, 42336, 45864, 392448, 714240, 1571328, 61900800 and 91963648. ( A194472)

They are named after Paul Erdős and Jean-Louis Nicolas, who wrote about them in 1975.

References

Erdős–Nicolas number Wikipedia