Interesting numbers
Source: Kvant Magazine No. 4 2022 M2694
March 8, 2023
Kvantnumber theory
Problem Statement
Call a natural number interesting if any natural number not exceeding can be represented as the sum of several (possibly one) pairwise distinct positive divisors of .[*]Find the largest three-digit interesting number.
[*]Prove that there are arbitrarily large interesting numbers other than the powers of two.Proposed by N. Agakhanov