Talk:Amicable pairs

amicable pairs, out of order

The following is the output from the REXX program (3rd entry) when specifying   1234567   (one million +)   as the argument:

    220  and      284  are an amicable pair.
   1184  and     1210  are an amicable pair.
   2620  and     2924  are an amicable pair.
   5020  and     5564  are an amicable pair.
   6232  and     6368  are an amicable pair.
  10744  and    10856  are an amicable pair.
  12285  and    14595  are an amicable pair.
  17296  and    18416  are an amicable pair.
  66928  and    66992  are an amicable pair.
  67095  and    71145  are an amicable pair.
  63020  and    76084  are an amicable pair.
  69615  and    87633  are an amicable pair.
  79750  and    88730  are an amicable pair.
 122368  and   123152  are an amicable pair.
 100485  and   124155  are an amicable pair.
 122265  and   139815  are an amicable pair.
 141664  and   153176  are an amicable pair.
 142310  and   168730  are an amicable pair.
 171856  and   176336  are an amicable pair.
 176272  and   180848  are an amicable pair.
 196724  and   202444  are an amicable pair.
 185368  and   203432  are an amicable pair.
 280540  and   365084  are an amicable pair.
 308620  and   389924  are an amicable pair.
 356408  and   399592  are an amicable pair.
 319550  and   430402  are an amicable pair.
 437456  and   455344  are an amicable pair.
 469028  and   486178  are an amicable pair.
 503056  and   514736  are an amicable pair.
 522405  and   525915  are an amicable pair.
 643336  and   652664  are an amicable pair.
 600392  and   669688  are an amicable pair.
 609928  and   686072  are an amicable pair.
 624184  and   691256  are an amicable pair.
 635624  and   712216  are an amicable pair.
 667964  and   783556  are an amicable pair.
 726104  and   796696  are an amicable pair.
 802725  and   863835  are an amicable pair.
 879712  and   901424  are an amicable pair.
 898216  and   980984  are an amicable pair.
 998104  and  1043096  are an amicable pair.
1077890  and  1099390  are an amicable pair.
 947835  and  1125765  are an amicable pair.
1154450  and  1189150  are an amicable pair.

44 amicable pairs found up to 1234567

It clearly shows that some of the amicable pairs are "out of order".   -- Gerard Schildberger (talk) 20:34, 5 October 2015 (UTC)

It looks to me like the REXX output is sorted on the larger value of the pair and that your point is that this means that the smaller values are not in sorted order? --Rdm (talk) 20:44, 5 October 2015 (UTC)