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A000224 Number of squares mod n. 30
1, 2, 2, 2, 3, 4, 4, 3, 4, 6, 6, 4, 7, 8, 6, 4, 9, 8, 10, 6, 8, 12, 12, 6, 11, 14, 11, 8, 15, 12, 16, 7, 12, 18, 12, 8, 19, 20, 14, 9, 21, 16, 22, 12, 12, 24, 24, 8, 22, 22, 18, 14, 27, 22, 18, 12, 20, 30, 30, 12, 31, 32, 16, 12, 21 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; text; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

REFERENCES

E. J. F. Primrose, The number of quadratic residues mod m, Math. Gaz. v. 61 (1977) n. 415, 60-61.

W. D. Stangl, Counting squares in Z_n, Math. Mag. 69 (1996) 285-289.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..10000

S. R. Finch and Pascal Sebah, Squares and Cubes Modulo n (arXiv:math.NT/0604465).

FORMULA

Multiplicative with a(p^e) = [p^e/6]+2 if p = 2; [p^(e+1)/(2p+2)]+1 if p > 2. - David W. Wilson, Aug 01, 2001.

MAPLE

seq(nops({seq(n^2 mod k, n=1..100)}), k=1..65); (E. Deutsch)

MATHEMATICA

Length[Union[#]]& /@ Table[Mod[k^2, n], {n, 65}, {k, n}] (* From Jean-François Alcover, Aug 30 2011 *)

PROG

(PARI) a(n) = local(v, i); v = vector(n, i, 0); for(i=0, floor(n/2), v[i^2%n+1] = 1); sum(i=1, n, v[i]) - Franklin T. Adams-Watters, Nov 05 2006

(PARI) a(n)=my(f=factor(n)); prod(i=1, #f[, 1], if(f[i, 1]==2, 2^f[1, 2]\6+2, f[i, 1]^(f[i, 2]+1)\(2*f[i, 1]+2)+1)) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Jul 15 2011

(Haskell)

a000224 n = product $ zipWith f (a027748_row n) (a124010_row n) where

   f 2 e = 2 ^ e `div` 6 + 2

   f p e = p ^ (e + 1) `div` (2 * p + 2) + 1

-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Aug 01 2012

CROSSREFS

a(n)=A105612(n)+1.

Cf. A095972.

Sequence in context: A144000 A085202 A096009 * A085201 A051601 A193921

Adjacent sequences:  A000221 A000222 A000223 * A000225 A000226 A000227

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice,mult,changed

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane.

STATUS

approved

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