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Owlet puzzle #3

Released Wednesday, July 8, 2026 UTC

496
the answer for puzzle #3

The five clues

  1. A three-digit number.
  2. Its proper divisors sum to itself.
  3. It is a perfect number, only the third one.
  4. Its divisors are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 31, 62, 124, 248.
  5. It equals 2⁴·(2⁵−1), Euclid's perfect-number form.

Backstory

Third perfect number. Perfect numbers correspond one-to-one with Mersenne primes.

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