Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Some properties of perfect nos...

1. sum of reciprocals of all d divisors of a perfect no. is always 2.
2. Every even perfect no. can be written as 2x-1(2x-1), where 2x-1 is a prime.
3. First 4 perfect nos. are 6, 28, 496 and 8128.
6=22-1(22-1)
28=23-1(23-1)
496=25-1(25-1)
8128=27-1(27-1)
4. Till d date, there is no known odd perfect no.It does not mean that thr is not any odd perfect no.

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