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Pseudoprimes to base 17.
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%I #39 Mar 20 2020 02:11:40

%S 4,8,9,16,45,91,145,261,781,1111,1228,1305,1729,1885,2149,2821,3991,

%T 4005,4033,4187,4912,5365,5662,5833,6601,6697,7171,8481,8911,10585,

%U 11476,12403,12673,13333,13833,15805,15841,16705,19345,19729,20591,21781,22791

%N Pseudoprimes to base 17.

%C Composite numbers n such that 17^(n-1) == 1 (mod n).

%C According to _Karsten Meyer_, May 16 2006, the terms 4, 8, 9 and 16 should be excluded, following the strict definition in Crandall and Pomerance (p. 132) that even numbers and squares are not pseudoprimes regardless of congruence. [clarified by _Alonso del Arte_, Feb 17 2020]

%D Richard Crandall and Carl Pomerance, "Prime Numbers - A Computational Perspective", Second Edition, Springer Verlag 2005, ISBN 0-387-25282-7 Page 132 (Theorem 3.4.2. and Algorithm 3.4.3).

%H R. J. Mathar and T. D. Noe, <a href="/A020145/b020145.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000</a> (R. J. Mathar to 799 terms)

%H Fred Richman, <a href="http://math.fau.edu/Richman/carm.htm">Primality testing with Fermat's little theorem</a>

%H <a href="/index/Ps#pseudoprimes">Index entries for sequences related to pseudoprimes</a>

%e 17^3 = 4913 = 1 mod 4, so 4 is in the sequence (note the Crandall and Pomerance caveat, however).

%e 17^4 = 83521 = 1 mod 5, but 5 is actually prime, so it's not in the sequence.

%e 17^5 = 1419857 = 5 mod 6, so 6 is not in the sequence either.

%t base = 17; pp17 = {}; n = 1; While[Length[pp17] < 100, n++; If[!PrimeQ[n] && PowerMod[base, n - 1, n] == 1, AppendTo[pp17, n]]]; pp17 (* _T. D. Noe_, Feb 21 2012 *)

%t Select[Range[23000], !PrimeQ[#] && PowerMod[17, # - 1, #] == 1 &] (* _Harvey P. Dale_, Apr 20 2019 *)

%Y Cf. A001567 (pseudoprimes to base 2).

%K nonn

%O 1,1

%A _David W. Wilson_