The whole sequence.............................(from 2 to 11) adds up to 65.............................6.5 is dead center numerically.........................................................odd doncha think? 6 + 5 = 11.................the end of what I call the prime fundamental.........which connects to 11, 13, 17, 19.............clues that any prime from then on towards infinity.............(which is not a number, just an arrow)....................that ANY prime can only end in a 1, a 3, a 7 or a 9..........................
Perfect number
mathematics
Perfect number, a positive integer that is equal to the sum of its proper divisors. The smallest perfect number is 6, which is the sum of 1, 2, and 3. Other perfect numbers are 28, 496, and 8,128. The discovery of such numbers is lost in prehistory. It is known, however, that the Pythagoreans (founded c. 525 bc) studied perfect numbers for their “mystical” properties.
The mystical tradition was continued by the Neo-Pythagorean philosopher Nicomachus of Gerasa (fl. c. ad 100), who classified numbers as deficient, perfect, and superabundant according to whether the sum of their divisors was less than, equal to, or greater than the number, respectively. Nicomachus gave moral qualities to his definitions, and such ideas found credence among early Christian theologians. Often the 28-day cycle of the Moon around the Earth was given as an example of a “Heavenly,” hence perfect, event that naturally was a perfect number. The most famous example of such thinking is given by St. Augustine, who wrote in The City of God (413–426):
Six is a number perfect in itself, and not because God created all things in six days; rather, the converse is true. God created all things in six days because the number is perfect.
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The earliest extant mathematical result concerning perfect numbers occurs in Euclid’s Elements (c. 300 bc), where he proves the proposition:
If as many numbers as we please beginning from a unit [1] be set out continuously in double proportion, until the sum of all becomes a prime, and if the sum multiplied into the last make some number, the product will be perfect.
Here “double proportion” means that each number is twice the preceding number, as in 1, 2, 4, 8, …. For example, 1 + 2 + 4 = 7 is prime; therefore, 7 × 4 = 28 (“the sum multiplied into the last”) is a perfect number. Euclid’s formula forces any perfect number obtained from it to be even, and in the 18th century the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler showed that any even perfect number must be obtainable from Euclid’s formula. It is not known whether there are any odd perfect numbers.
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