A positive divisor of a positive integer is bi-unitary when the greatest common unitary divisor of and is . The comparison uses unitary divisors, so it differs from requiring the ordinary greatest common divisor to be one.
For with a prime number and , consider , where . The only possible nontrivial common unitary divisor of and occurs when . Consequently every divisor is bi-unitary except when is even.
For example, the bi-unitary divisors of are ; only is excluded. Its unitary divisors are just and , showing that these two notions differ substantially. For a general positive integer, apply the prime-power condition independently to each prime factor in its prime factorization.
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