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- noun number theory A number that is less than the sum of all of its
divisors except itself.
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An abundant number is smaller than the sum of its divisors: in my case, the sum of one, two, three, four, and six (twelve’s divisors) is sixteen.
The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas Condé Nast 2019
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