Good. Now that we are on the topic of perfect numbers, I have proven that any odd perfect number must have at least 9 factors. .... Actually, I had done the same a year ago, showing that an odd perfect number had to have more than 1, 2, 3, 4, even 5 distinct factors, saying that there were no exponents, and I got up to the point to the conjecture I showed. It was with Pascal's triangle, but my proof just said that since you were dividing 1 into two parts each time, then multiplying by two, then it was 2^n. But that wasn't enough. I'll try and explain my proof in detail in another e - mail. I'm still working on it. _________________________________________________________________ Unsubscribe & list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
