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The smallest odd prime Thabit number. Arab mathematician Thabit ibn Qurra discovered a rule for finding amicable pairs based on these numbers (of the form 3 * 2ⁿ - 1) before his death in Baghdad in 901.

Submitted: 2003-10-31 15:12:44; Last Modified: 2009-03-28 21:33:01.