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Amicable Numbers

April 5, 2022From the book Math Games with Bad Drawings

220 and 284 are amicable numbers: the divisors of each add up to the other. They're very sweet about it.

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220 (divisors 1, 2, 4, 5, 10, 11, 20, 22, 44, 55, 110, summing to 284): "Hey pal, I love your divisor sum!" 284 (divisors 1, 2, 4, 71, 142, summing to 220): "You sweetie! I love your face."

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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2022-04-05-amicable-numbers/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Topics
Number Theory › Perfect NumbersNumber Theory › Prime Factorization
Level
Middle SchoolHigh School
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Family & Relationships