A
number n is said to be anti-
prime iff it has exactly one
anti-divisor. The first few anti-primes are 3, 4, 6 and 96.
The anti-primes appear to be related to the
twin primes, with the exception of 4, since any odd anti-
divisor k of a number x is paired with another anti-divisor m so that k*m=2x
+1, and only numbers x=2
n for some
positive integer n will lack
even anti-divisors. x=4 is an anti-prime because 2*4+1 is 9=3*3, so 4 only has the anti-divisor 3. 4 is the only anti-prime of the form x=2
n because exactly one of 2
n+1-1, 2
n+1, 2
n+1+1 will be
divisible by 3, and x would have 3 as an antidivisor, and also the other
factor of either 2
n+1-1 or 2
n+1+1.