Let is an even perfect number greater than satisfying the linear congruence
If . What is the value of ?
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This problem is actually still an open question.
There haven't been a proof that there is no odd numbers .
"..a prolonged meditation on the subject has satisfied me that the existence of any one such [odd perfect number] — its escape, so to say, from the complex web of conditions which hem it in on all sides — would be little short of a miracle."
Should such a number exist, x = 1 is another solution.
And of course, proving that it gives a remainder of 4 if there's no perfect odd number. All odd perfect numbers greater than 6 is in the form of 2 p − 1 ∗ ( 2 p − 1 ) for prime p
When consider modulo 6 implies we consider modulo 2 and 3
Obviously modulo 2 gives 0 . And with p as odd, modulo 3 gives ( − 1 ) even × ( ( − 1 ) odd − 1 ) ≡ 1 . Which gives 4 modulo 6 .