Sociable Chain/Examples/12,496/Historical Note

Historical Note on Sociable Chain of 12,496

The sociable chain of $12 \, 496$ was discovered by Paul Poulet.

He included a reference to it in a paper he published in $1918$.

Sources

• 1918: Paul Poulet: $\#$4865 (Interméd. Math. Vol. 25: pp. 100 – 101)

• 1986: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers ... (previous) ... (next): $12,496$
• 1997: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Numbers (2nd ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): $12,496$

• Weisstein, Eric W. "Sociable Numbers." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/SociableNumbers.html