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OBSERVATIONS ON THE DEMLO NUMBERS 
 by Jason Earlsauthor of 
 Mathematical Bliss
and
Concrete Primes
available here (please buy one!):http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/mathematical-bliss/6542538http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/concrete-primes/7277732The Demlo numbers are given by the formula, D(
n
) = [(10– 1)/9]:
n
+ 1 2
1121123211234321123454321123456543211234567654321123456787654321123456789876543211234567900987654321123456790120987654321123456790123209876543211234567901234320987654321123456790123454320987654321123456790123456543209876543211234567901234567654320987654321123456790123456787654320987654321123456790123456789876543209876543211234567901234567900987654320987654321123456790123456790120987654320987654321123456790123456790123209876543209876543211234567901234567901234320987654320987654321  Which make an attractive array. They begin as palindromes but quickly stop (after the9th term they become “unbalanced” by one digit). It’s fun to “analyze” this basic array. I wonder how many divisors these numbers would have. For example, computing thedivisors for the 3rd term in the sequence, we see:divisors(1234321)= [1, 11, 101, 121, 1111, 10201, 12221, 112211, 1234321]But that amount is relatively tame compared to the 6th term which has a whopping 243divisors:divisors(12345654321)[1, 3, 7, 9, 11, 13, 21, 33, 37, 39, 49, 63, 77, 91, 99, 111, 117, 121, 143, 147, 169, 231, 259,273, 333, 363, 407, 429, 441, 481, 507, 539, 637, 693, 777, 819, 847, 1001, 1089, 1183,1221, 1287, 1369, 1443, 1521, 1573, 1617, 1813, 1859, 1911, 2331, 2541, 2849, 3003, 3367,3549, 3663, 4107, 4329, 4477, 4719, 4851, 5291, 5439, 5577, 5733, 5929, 6253, 7007,7623, 8281, 8547, 9009, 9583, 10101, 10647, 11011, 12321, 13013, 13431, 14157, 15059,15873, 16317, 16731, 17787, 17797, 18759, 19943, 20449, 21021, 23569, 24843, 25641,28749, 30303, 31339, 33033, 37037, 39039, 40293, 43771, 45177, 47619, 53361, 53391,56277, 58201, 59829, 61347, 63063, 67081, 68783, 70707, 74529, 77077, 86247, 91091,
 
94017, 99099, 105413, 111111, 117117, 124579, 131313, 135531, 143143, 160173, 165649,174603, 179487, 184041, 195767, 201243, 206349, 212121, 219373, 231231, 231361,259259, 273273, 282051, 306397, 316239, 333333, 373737, 393939, 407407, 429429,481481, 496947, 523809, 587301, 603729, 619047, 658119, 693693, 694083, 737891,756613, 777777, 819819, 872053, 919191, 948717, 1002001, 1121211, 1159543, 1222221,1288287, 1370369, 1444443, 1490841, 1619527, 1761903, 1974357, 2082249, 2153437,2213673, 2269839, 2333331, 2544971, 2616159, 2757573, 2851849, 3006003, 3370367,3478629, 3666663, 4111107, 4333329, 4858581, 5296291, 6460311, 6641019, 6809517,7634913, 7848477, 8116801, 8555547, 9018009, 9592583, 10111101, 10435887,11336689, 12333321, 14575743, 15074059, 15888873, 17814797, 19380933, 22904739,24350403, 25666641, 27994681, 28777749, 30333303, 34010067, 37074037, 45222177,47666619, 53444391, 73051209, 83984043, 86333247, 102030201, 105518413,111222111, 124703579, 135666531, 160333173, 195962767, 251952129, 316555239,333666333, 374110737,587888301, 949665717, 1122332211, 1371739369, 1763664903,4115218107, 12345654321]So how many divisors do the Demlo numbers contain? Here is a list of preliminary data up to the 65th term in the format of “n ‘colon’ number of Demlo(n) divisors”:1:32:93:94:95:2436:97:818:459:8110:911:218712:2713:8114:72915:72916:917:1093518:319:218720:218721:121522:323:5904924:24325:72926:56727:656128:24329:159432330:2731:17714732:72933:72934:2187
 
35:29524536:2737:2738:72939:17714740:8141:797161542:8143:9841544:3280545:72946:947:159432348:8149:5904950:656151:1968352:8153:124002954:656155:53144156:72957:656158:959:348678440160:218761:24362:265720563:1434890764:218765:7971615Look at the number of divisors for the Demlo(59)! Amazing! What else can youdetermine about the divisors of Demlo numbers? Send me your results.Now let’s define an unusual function that not many mathematicians use and apply itto the Demlo numbers. Let SH(
n
) be the concatenation of the sum of prime factors withthe largest prime factor at the end (I used this function in my “Hero Primes” article). Applying SH(n) to the Demlo numbers yields:12211803722410162427114237977646496441376674203336671882890911069776513239201469901530743570265371653
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