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A002068 Wilson remainders: a(n) = ((p-1)!+1)/p mod p, where p=prime(n).
(Formerly M3728 N1524)
6
1, 1, 0, 5, 1, 0, 5, 2, 8, 18, 19, 7, 16, 13, 6, 34, 27, 56, 12, 69, 11, 73, 20, 70, 70, 72, 57, 1, 30, 95, 71, 119, 56, 67, 94, 86, 151, 108, 21, 106, 48, 72, 159, 35, 147, 118, 173, 180, 113, 131, 169, 107, 196, 214, 177, 73, 121, 170, 25, 277, 164, 231, 271, 259, 288, 110 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,4

COMMENTS

If this is zero, p is a Wilson prime (see A007540).

REFERENCES

R. Crandall and C. Pomerance, Prime Numbers: A Computational Perspective, Springer, NY, 2001; see p. 29.

C.-E. Froberg, Investigation of the Wilson remainders in the interval 3<=p<=50,000, Arkiv f. Matematik, 4 (1961), 479-481.

K. Goldberg, A table of Wilson quotients and the third Wilson prime, J. London Math. Soc., 28 (1953), 252-256.

J. Roberts, Lure of the Integers, Math. Assoc. America, 1992, p. 244.

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 = 1..2000

J. Sondow, Lerch Quotients, Lerch Primes, Fermat-Wilson Quotients, and the Wieferich-non-Wilson Primes 2, 3, 14771, in Proceedings of CANT 2011, arXiv:1110.3113

FORMULA

a(n) = A007619(n) mod A000040(n)

MATHEMATICA

Table[p=Prime[n]; Mod[((p-1)!+1)/p, p], {n, 100}] - T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Mar 21 2006

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A102259 A021200 A019904 * A021666 A143148 A198541

Adjacent sequences:  A002065 A002066 A002067 * A002069 A002070 A002071

KEYWORD

nonn,nice,easy

AUTHOR

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

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