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Numbers whose positive divisors have small integral harmonic mean

1997/01/01 by Graeme L. Cohen · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · Mathematics · #Quantum Mechanics and Non-Hermitian Physics #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Algebraic and Geometric Analysis #Algorithm #Annotation #Artificial intelligence #Type (biology) #Computer science #Mathematics #Database #Biology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1090/s0025-5718-97-00819-3

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Abstract

A natural number <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="n"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">n</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> is said to be harmonic when the harmonic mean <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper H left-parenthesis n right-parenthesis"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>H</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">H(n)</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> of its positive divisors is an integer. These were first introduced almost fifty years ago. In this paper, all harmonic numbers less than <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="2 times 10 Superscript 9"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mn>2</mml:mn> <mml:mo> × </mml:mo> <mml:msup> <mml:mn>10</mml:mn> <mml:mrow class="MJX-TeXAtom-ORD"> <mml:mn>9</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> </mml:msup> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">2× 109</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> are listed, along with some other useful tables, and all harmonic numbers <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="n"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">n</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> with <inline-formula content-type="math/mathml"> <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" alttext="upper H left-parenthesis n right-parenthesis less-than-or-equal-to 13"> <mml:semantics> <mml:mrow> <mml:mi>H</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">(</mml:mo> <mml:mi>n</mml:mi> <mml:mo stretchy="false">)</mml:mo> <mml:mo> ≤ </mml:mo> <mml:mn>13</mml:mn> </mml:mrow> <mml:annotation encoding="application/x-tex">H(n)≤ 13</mml:annotation> </mml:semantics> </mml:math> </inline-formula> are determined.

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