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Perfect fibonacci and lucas numbers

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In this note, we show that the classical Fibonacci and Lucas sequence do not contain any perfect number.

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Luca, F. Perfect fibonacci and lucas numbers. Rend. Circ. Mat. Palermo 49, 313–318 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02904236

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