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Biunitary Divisor


A divisor d of a positive integer n is biunitary if the greatest common unitary divisor of d and n/d is 1. For a prime power p^y, the biunitary divisors are the powers 1, p, p^2, ..., p^y, except for p^(y/2) when y is even (Cohen 1990).


See also

Divisor, k-ary Divisor, Unitary Divisor

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References

Cohen, G. L. "On an Integer's Infinitary Divisors." Math. Comput. 54, 395-411, 1990.Suryanarayana, D. "The Number of Bi-Unitary Divisors of an Integer." The Theory of Arithmetic Functions (Proc. Conf., Western Michigan Univ., Kalamazoo, Mich., 1971. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 273-282, 1972.Suryanarayana, D. and Rao, R. S. R. C. "The Number of Bi-Unitary Divisors of an Integer. II." J. Indian Math. Soc. 39, 261-280, 1975.

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