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On perfect and near-perfect numbers

arXiv:1011.6160

Abstract

We call positive integer n a near-perfect number, if it is sum of all its proper divisors, except of one of them ("redundant divisor"). We prove an Euclid-like theorem for near-perfect numbers and obtain some other results for them.

4 pages. At the beginning of 2012, Donavan Johnson found the first odd near-perfect number