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Recovering the number (Posted on 2019-02-13) Difficulty: 3 of 5
The sum of all divisors of this semiprime number is 2696.

What is the number?

Bonus: What if the word "semiprime" was erased from the puzzle?

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Solution Solution by year. | Comment 1 of 2
The number is 2019.
Its factors sum 1+3+673+2019=2696.

Method:  let the prime factors be (a,b) then 1+a+b+ab=2696.
b=(2695-a)/(1+a)
Search by table only needs to go (odd primes) from 3 to 51.  Only a=3 gives prime b.  


Bonus:  If you erase "semiprime" the puzzle becomes harder.  

Edit:  This chart implies there are no other numbers

http://oeis.org/A085790/a085790.txt

Edited on February 13, 2019, 1:47 pm
  Posted by Jer on 2019-02-13 12:48:24

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