Properties
It has been shown that an infinite number of weird numbers exist; in fact, the sequence of weird numbers has positive asymptotic density.
It is not known if any odd weird numbers exist; if any do, they must be greater than 232 ≈ 4×109.
Stanley Kravitz has shown that if k is a positive integer, Q is a prime, and
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if R is prime, then
is a weird number. With this formula, he was able to find a large weird number
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Read more about this topic: Weird Number
Famous quotes containing the word properties:
“A drop of water has the properties of the sea, but cannot exhibit a storm. There is beauty of a concert, as well as of a flute; strength of a host, as well as of a hero.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The reason why men enter into society, is the preservation of their property; and the end why they choose and authorize a legislative, is, that there may be laws made, and rules set, as guards and fences to the properties of all the members of the society: to limit the power, and moderate the dominion, of every part and member of the society.”
—John Locke (1632–1704)