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A001917 (p-1)/x, where p = prime(n) and x = ord(2,p), the smallest positive integer such that 2^x == 1 mod p.
(Formerly M0069 N0022)
12
1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 1, 6, 1, 2, 3, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 8, 2, 1, 8, 2, 1, 2, 1, 3, 4, 18, 1, 2, 1, 1, 10, 3, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 1, 6, 1, 3, 8, 2, 10, 5, 16, 2, 1, 2, 3, 4, 3, 1, 3, 2, 2, 1, 11, 16, 1, 1, 4, 2, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 9, 2, 2, 1, 1, 10, 6, 6, 1, 2, 6, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 3, 2, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

2,3

COMMENTS

Also number of cycles in permutations constructed from siteswap juggling pattern 1234...p.

Also A006694((p_n-1)/2) where p_n is the n-th odd prime. Conjecture: A006694(((p_n)^k-1)/2)=ka(n). - Vladimir Shevelev (shevelev(AT)bgu.ac.il), May 26 2008

REFERENCES

I. Anderson and D. A. Preece, Combinatorially fruitful properies of ..., Discr. Math., 310 (2010), 312-324. - N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Dec 24 2009

M. Kraitchik, Recherches sur la Th\'{e}orie des Nombres. Gauthiers-Villars, Paris, Vol. 1, 1924, Vol. 2, 1929, see Vol. 1, p. 131.

D. H. Lehmer, Guide to Tables in the Theory of Numbers. Bulletin No. 105, National Research Council, Washington, DC, 1941, pp. 7-10.

W. Meissner, Ueber die Teilbarkeit von 2^p-2 durch das Quadrat der Primzahl p = 1093, Sitzungsberichte K\"{o}niglich Preussischen Akadamie Wissenschaften Berlin, 35 (1913), 663-667.

N. J. A. Sloane, A Handbook of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1973 (includes this sequence).

N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 2..10000

V. Papadimitriou, The l_2^(p) and the ... ratio of the first hundred million primes [From Vassilis Papadimitriou (bpapa(AT)sch.gr), Mar 13 2010]

MAPLE

with(numtheory); [seq((ithprime(n)-1)/order(2, ithprime(n)), n=2..130)];

with(group); with(numtheory); gen_rss_perm := proc(n) local a, i; a := []; for i from 1 to n do a := [op(a), ((2*i) mod (n+1))]; od; RETURN(a); end; count_of_disjcyc_seq := [seq(nops(convert(gen_rss_perm(ithprime(j)-1), 'disjcyc')), j=2..)];

MATHEMATICA

a6694[n_] := Sum[ EulerPhi[d] / MultiplicativeOrder[2, d], {d, Divisors[2n + 1]}] - 1; a[n_] := a6694[(Prime[n]-1)/2]; Table[ a[n], {n, 2, 104}] (* From Jean-François Alcover, Dec 14 2011, after Vladimir Shevelev *)

PROG

(MAGMA) [ (p-1)/Modorder(2, p) where p is NthPrime(n): n in [2..100] ]; [From Klaus Brockhaus (klaus-brockhaus(AT)t-online.de), Dec 09 2008]

(PARI) {for(n=2, 100, p=prime(n); print1((p-1)/znorder(Mod(2, p)), ", "))} [From Klaus Brockhaus (klaus-brockhaus(AT)t-online.de), Dec 09 2008]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A006694 gives cycle counts of such permutations constructed for all odd numbers.

Cf. A001122, A115591, A001133, A001134, A001135, A001136, A101208

Sequence in context: A013632 A080121 A122901 * A091591 A109374 A079706

Adjacent sequences:  A001914 A001915 A001916 * A001918 A001919 A001920

KEYWORD

nonn,easy,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

EXTENSIONS

Additional comments from Antti Karttunen, Jan 05 2000

More terms from N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Dec 24 2009

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