The problem addressed is the exact determination of the norms of the classical Hilbert, Copson and averaging operators on weighted `p spaces and the corresponding Lorentz sequence spaces d(w, p), with the power weighting sequence wn = n−α or the variant defined by w1 + · · ·+wn = n1−α. Exact values are found in each case except for the averaging operator with wn = n−α, for which estimates deriv...