4. As you've heard, the smallest pair of amicable numbers, 220 and 284, were known to the ancient Greeks, the next pair of

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4. As you've heard, the smallest pair of amicable numbers, 220 and 284, were known to the ancient Greeks, the next pair of amicable numbers, 17296 and 18416, were discovered by the Islamic mathematician Ibn al-Banna in the 14th century (and rediscovered by Fermat). Thousands more have been found since. In Italy in 1866, however, 16-year-old Nicolo Paganini discovered a small pair of amicable numbers, 1184 and 1210, that had been overlooked for centuries. Verify that 1184 and 1210 are an amicable pair.

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