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[For the entire collection see Zbl 0734.00015.] The authors continue their study of the function \(H(x,y,z)\), defined to be the number of positive integers \(n\leq x\) with at least one divisor in the interval \((y,z]\). Here they are concerned with the case \(z\leq 2y\) and assume that \(3\leq y\leq z\leq x^{1/2}\). Define \(\beta\) by \(z=y+y(\log y)^{-\beta}\); it is known that \(\beta\) has a threshold at \(\log 4-1\), so they write \(\beta=\log 4-1+\xi(\log\log y)^{-1/2}\). Their first result establishes upper and lower bounds, of the same order of magnitude, for \(H(x,y,z)\) that are valid uniformly for \(\xi\geq - C(\log\log y)^{1/6}\), where \(C\) is an arbitrary positive constant. This improves, for this range, the lower bound given in Theorem 21(ii) of their book [Divisors (Cambridge, 1988; Zbl 0653.10001)]. The second result of this paper concerns a weighted analogue of \(H(x,y,z)\). Let \(\chi(n;y,z)\) be the characteristic function of the property that \(n\) has a divisor in \((y,z]\), \(\tau(n;y,z)=\sum_{d\mid n; y<d\leq z} 1\), \(\Omega(n,z)=\sum_{p\leq z, p^ \nu\parallel n} \nu\) and \(H(x,y,z;t)=\sum_{n\leq x}\chi(n;y,z)t^{\Omega(n,z)}\) where \(1/2\leq t\leq 1\), so \(H(x,y,z)=H(x,y,z;1)\). Theorem 2 implies that the asymptotic formula \[ H(x,y,z;t)\sim \sum_{n\leq x}\tau(n;y,z)t^{\Omega(n,z)} \] holds under certain conditions on \(\beta\) and \(t\) too complicated to state here.