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Exercise 4.2.2 (Smallest integer $x$ for which $d(x) = 6$.)

Find the smallest integer x for which d ( x ) = 6 .

Answers

Proof. We give some values of d :

m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 d ( m ) 1 2 2 3 2 4 2 4 3 4 2 6

The smallest integer x for which d ( x ) = 6 is

x = 12 .

sage: [sigma(m, 0) for m in range(1, 13)]
[1, 2, 2, 3, 2, 4, 2, 4, 3, 4, 2, 6]

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