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A071894 Largest positive primitive root (<p) of n-th prime p. 4
1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 11, 14, 15, 21, 27, 24, 35, 35, 34, 45, 51, 56, 59, 63, 69, 68, 77, 80, 86, 92, 99, 101, 104, 103, 110, 118, 128, 134, 135, 147, 146, 152, 159, 165, 171, 176, 179, 189, 188, 195, 197, 207, 214, 224, 223, 230, 237, 234, 248, 254, 261, 267, 269, 272 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,2

REFERENCES

M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards Applied Math. Series 55, 1964 (and various reprintings), p. 864.

R. Osborn, Tables of All Primitive Roots of Odd Primes Less Than 1000, Univ. Texas Press, 1961.

LINKS

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

M. Abramowitz and I. A. Stegun, eds., Handbook of Mathematical Functions, National Bureau of Standards, Applied Math. Series 55, Tenth Printing, 1972 [alternative scanned copy].

FORMULA

a(n)=prime(n)-A002199(n) - T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Oct 24 2005

MATHEMATICA

f[n_] := Block[{k = Prime[n] - 1, p = Prime[n], t = Table[i, {i, 1, Prime[n] - 1}]}, While[ Union[ PowerMod[ k, t, p]] != t, k-- ]; k]; Table[ f[n], {n, 1, 60}]

CROSSREFS

A diagonal of triangle in A060749.

Sequence in context: A106637 A171048 A185371 * A078444 A194221 A054925

Adjacent sequences:  A071891 A071892 A071893 * A071895 A071896 A071897

KEYWORD

nonn,easy

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Jun 11, 2002

EXTENSIONS

More terms from Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Jun 11 2002

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