E725 -- Illustratio paradoxi circa progressionem numerorum idoneorum sive congruorum

(An illustration of a paradox about the idoneal, or suitable, numbers)

Summary:

Euler searches for an idoneal number beyond the 65th. This is a very short paper.

Publication:

Originally published in Nova Acta Academiae Scientarum Imperialis Petropolitinae 15, 1806, pp. 29-32
Opera Omnia: Series 1, Volume 4,p p. 395 - 398
Reprinted in Commentat. arithm. 2, 1849, pp. 261-262 [E725a]

Documents Available:

Original Publication: E725
Jordan Bell of Carleton University in Ontario has prepared a translation of E725.

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