[seqfan] Pairs Occurring Only Once Among # Of Divisors

Hagen von EItzen math at von-eitzen.de
Wed Jun 10 19:36:11 CEST 2009


Your argument generalizes:
If  n = 2^k - 1 is prime, then d(n)=2, d(n+1)=k+1.
If d(m)=2 and d(m+1)=k+1, then m is prime and m+1 is a k-th prime power; 
if k>1, m must be odd, hence m+1=2^k.
Thus A161460 contains at least all Mersenne primes

Hagen





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