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A119678 a(n) = least k such that the remainder when 4^k is divided by k is n. 46
3, 14, 137243, 5, 6821, 10, 57, 124, 35, 18, 2791496231, 244, 51, 505, 199534799, 20, 30271293169, 49, 45, 236, 399531841, 42, 533, 25, 39, 50, 352957, 36, 995, 98, 33, 112, 47503, 55, 42345881, 44, 2981, 289, 805, 78, 1019971289, 25498, 2121, 212 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

a(n) > n.

Numbers n>1 such that a(n-1) = n are listed in A015950.

a(87) > 10^14.

LINKS

Ryan Propper, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..82, Feb 21 2007

Robert G. Wilson v, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000 with -1 for those entries where a(n) has not yet been found

FORMULA

a(5^k-1) = 5^k.

MATHEMATICA

Do[k = 1; While[PowerMod[4, k, k] != n, k++ ]; Print[k], {n, 30}]

t = Table[0, {10000} ]; k = 1; While[ k < 5000000000, a = PowerMod[4, k, k]; If[a < 10001 && t[[a]] == 0, t[[a]] = k; Print[{a, k}]]; k++ ]; t

CROSSREFS

Cf. A015950, A036236, A078457, A119679, A127816, A119715, A119714, A127817, A127818, A127819, A127820, A127821.

Sequence in context: A088334 A050645 A048568 * A096682 A009215 A088558

Adjacent sequences:  A119675 A119676 A119677 * A119679 A119680 A119681

KEYWORD

nonn

AUTHOR

Ryan Propper (rpropper(AT)stanford.edu), Jun 12 2006

EXTENSIONS

a(11) <= 2791496231, a(17) <= 140631956671, a(53) <= 52134328061 from Joe K. Crump (joecr(AT)carolina.rr.com), Feb 10 2007

a(11) = 2791496231 from Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(at)rgwv.com), Feb 11 2007. Confirmed by Ryan Propper (rpropper(AT)stanford.edu), Feb 15 2007.

Extended through n = 82 by Ryan Propper (rpropper(AT)stanford.edu), Feb 21 2007

Search limits in the Mathematica coding is expanded by Robert G. Wilson v (rgwv(AT)rgwv.com), Jul 14 2009

Link corrected by R. J. Mathar (mathar(AT)strw.leidenuniv.nl), Jul 24 2009

a(83) = 3085807457009 = 113 * 331 * 82501603. [From Hagen von Eitzen (math(AT)von-eitzen.de), Jul 27 2009]

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