Erdős Problem #18 — Representing integers below as sums of few distinct divisors
I proved long ago that every is the distinct sum of or fewer divisors of . Let be the smallest integer, if it exists, for which every integer less than is the distinct sum of or fewer divisors of . Srinivasan called the numbers for which exists practical. It is well known and easy to see that almost all numbers are not practical. I conjectured that there is a constant for which for infinitely many we have . M. Vose proved that . Perhaps . I would be very glad to see a proof of .
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P. Erdős, Some of my favourite problems in number theory, combinatorics, and geometry, Resenhas IME-USP 2 (1995), 165-186.
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