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Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare.

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Rene Descartes highlights the rarity of both perfect numbers and perfect men, suggesting that they are infrequent and extraordinary phenomena.
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Mathematician, French
Rene Descartes was a renowned French mathematician.
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