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Extreme values for divisor functions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2009

R.A. MacLeod
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Victoria, P.O. Box 1700, Victoria, B.C., Canada V8W 2Y2
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Abstract

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Maximum and minimum values are obtained for some sums invovling the divisor functions of number theory.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1988

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