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A059770 First solution of x^2 = 2 mod p for primes p such that a solution exists. 3

%I #13 Sep 22 2013 08:11:51

%S 0,3,6,5,8,17,7,12,32,9,25,14,38,51,16,31,46,13,57,52,20,15,85,99,22,

%T 60,110,96,132,66,120,26,167,19,79,137,53,97,188,206,21,30,80,203,187,

%U 91,157,249,201,34,142,166,222,194,296,94,67,36,283,324,27,102,113,73

%N First solution of x^2 = 2 mod p for primes p such that a solution exists.

%C Solutions mod p are represented by integers from 0 to p-1. For p > 2: If x^2 = 2 has a solution mod p, then it has exactly two solutions and their sum is p; i is a solution mod p of x^2 = 2 iff p-i is a solution mod p of x^2 = 2. No integer occurs more than once in this sequence. Moreover, no integer (except 0) occurs both in this sequence and in sequence A059771 of the second solutions (Cf. A059772).

%H Vincenzo Librandi, <a href="/A059770/b059770.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..5000</a>

%H K. Matthews, <a href="http://www.numbertheory.org/php/tonelli.html">Finding square roots mod p by Tonelli's algorithm</a>

%H R. Chapman, <a href="http://www.maths.ex.ac.uk/~rjc/courses/nt03/sqrt.pdf">Square roots modulo a prime</a>

%F a(n) = first (least) solution of x^2 = 2 mod p, where p is the n-th prime such that x^2 = 2 mod p has a solution, i.e. p is the n-th term of A038873.

%e a(6) = 17, since 41 is the sixth term of A038873, 17 and 24 are the solutions mod 41 of x^2 = 2 and 17 is the smaller one.

%t fQ[n_] := MemberQ[{1, 2, 7}, Mod[n, 8]]; f[n_] := PowerMod[2, 1/2, n]; f@ Select[ Prime[Range[135]], fQ] (* _Robert G. Wilson v_, Oct 18 2011 *)

%Y Cf. A038873, A059771, A059772.

%K nonn

%O 1,2

%A _Klaus Brockhaus_, Feb 21 2001

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