Talk:Perfect numbers: Difference between revisions

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:::A brief search on the wikipedia oracle seems to show that they are the same unless you're talking about graphs. It doesn't make any difference to me or math books which word you use in this case, so whatever it is now I say leave it. FFR they are the same, though. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 03:08, 20 August 2010 (UTC)
:::A brief search on the wikipedia oracle seems to show that they are the same unless you're talking about graphs. It doesn't make any difference to me or math books which word you use in this case, so whatever it is now I say leave it. FFR they are the same, though. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 03:08, 20 August 2010 (UTC)


::: The "factors that are less than" 6 are ... --- Another term for that is "proper divisors". Proper divisors of X are all (positive integer) divisors of X except X. -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 21:32, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
::: The   ''factors that are less than 6 are''   ...   --- Another term for that is   ''proper divisors''.   Proper divisors of   '''X'''   are all (positive integer) divisors of   '''X'''   except   '''X'''.   Unity is treated as a special case.   -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] 21:32, 23 March 2012 (UTC)