Birthday party

For those of you who hadn’t heard, because I’m a dumbass. Birthday party tonight, my place. Celebrate my 28th year. If you don’t have my address, put a comment on here with your preferred means of contact, and immediately delete it. I’ll get an email and get back to you. =)

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      1. According to the mathemetician Euler, a number is “perfect” if the sum of its factors, other than itself, is equal to itself. Thus, for 6, whose factors are 1, 2, 3, and 6, the sum 1 + 2 + 3 is equal to 6. For 28, 1 + (2 + 14) + (4 + 7) = 28.

        Perfect numbers can be found formulaically by using Mersenne primes (prime numbers of the form Mn = 2n – 1):  Pn = 2n-1 * Mn

        Mn must be prime for the formula to work, so cases like M=1 and M=4 do not produce perfect numbers. The third perfect number is 496, produced when M=5.

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