"""
Euclid (Book IX, Prop 36.): If M is a
Mersenne prime, then the Mth triangular
number is a perfect number.
Context:
http://www.4dsolutions.net/ocn/perfectnumbers.html
(gpl) 2007 by K. Urner, 4D Solutions
"""
mersennep = [2, 3, 5, 7, 13, 17, 19,
31, 61, 89, 107, 127, 521, 607,
1279, 2203, 2281, 3217, 4253, 4423, 9689,
9941, 11213, 19937, 21701, 23209, 44497,
86243]
mersennes = (pow(2,p) - 1 for p in mersennep )
def trinumb(n):
"""
Triangular numbers
"""
return n*(n+1)//2
def divisors(n):
"""
Divisors of small numbers: trial by division
Changed slightly since video (see web page, URL above)
"""
thedivisors = [1]
d = 2
while True:
if not n % d:
thedivisors.append(d)
otherfactor = n//d
if d != otherfactor:
thedivisors.append(otherfactor)
d += 1
if d*d > n:
break
thedivisors.sort()
return thedivisors
def test():
"""
loop through generated Mersennes testing
Euclid's Prop IX:36
"""
for M in mersennes:
print "The Mersenne is... %s" % M
tri = trinumb(M)
print "The Triangular Number is... %s" % tri
print "The divisors of %s are...\n" % tri
thedivisors = divisors(tri)
print thedivisors
print "...and the sum of these divisors is"
print "(drum roll)..."
print sum(thedivisors)
print
yield None
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