- everybody believes that there are infinitely many (even) perfect numbers, because everybody believes that there are infinitely many Mersenne prime numbers p (i.e. prime numbers p such that 2p-1 is a prime too);
- it seems to me that some (many? most?) specialists believe that there are only finitely many baroque numbers which are not perfect; some even think that all baroque non-perfect numbers are already known (no way!). Myself, I believe that there are infinitely many of them but finitely many for each baroqueness coefficient;
- nobody believes that there is any odd perfect number;
- I think that nobody believes that there is any odd baroque number; I don't either but I am not so sure :-).
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Baroque conjectures
Let me address the views (guesses) on the four questions, about the perfect and baroque numbers, listed in the previous post:
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