Bayless, Jonathan; Kinlaw, Paul

Explicit bounds for the sum of reciprocals of pseudoprimes and Carmichael numbers

J. Integer Seq. 20(6), Article 17.6.4, 17 p. (2017)

Summary

Summary: From a 1956 paper of Erdős, we know that the base-two pseudoprimes and the Carmichael numbers both have a convergent sum of reciprocals. We prove that the values of these sums are less than 33 and 28, respectively.

Mathematics Subject Classification

11N25, 11Y99

Keywords/Phrases

Carmichael number, pseudoprime, reciprocal sum, smooth number

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