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hyperperfect number en · NOUN

Etymology

From hyper- + perfect number.

Meanings

  1. Any natural number n for which, for some positive integer k, n = 1 + k(σ(n) - n - 1), where σ(n) is the sum of the positive divisors of n.
    • In 1974, Daniel Minoli and Robert Bear described a number of properties of hyperperfect numbers. 1999, James J. Tattersall, Elementary Number Theory in Nine Chapters, page 144:
    • The rank of a hyperperfect number N is the ratio of divisor sum to N (which equals 2 for perfect numbers). 1974, William Judson LeVeque, editor, Reviews in number theory, as printed in Mathematical reviews, 1940 through 1972, volumes 1-44 inclusive, volume 1, page 107:
    • 1966, American Mathematical Society Translations, page 258, […] the asymptotic density of all hyperperfect numbers, that is, numbers m for which m | σ(m), is equal to zero.

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Deriveds

-hyperperfect number

Relateds

superperfect number · perfect number