Owlet puzzle #3
Released Wednesday, July 8, 2026 UTC
496
the answer for puzzle #3
The five clues
- A three-digit number.
- Its proper divisors sum to itself.
- It is a perfect number, only the third one.
- Its divisors are 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 31, 62, 124, 248.
- 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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