OFFSET
1,3
COMMENTS
a(n) = number of bases b modulo n for which b^{n-1} == 1 (mod n).
a(A209211(n)) = 1. - Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 02 2013
Note that a(n) = phi(n) iff n = 1 or n is prime or n is Carmichael number A002997. - Thomas Ordowski, Dec 17 2013
LINKS
Amiram Eldar, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..10000 (terms 1..1000 from T. D. Noe)
W. R. Alford, A. Granville and C. Pomerance, There are infinitely many Carmichael numbers, Ann. of Math. (2) 139 (1994), no. 3, 703-722.
R. Baillie and S. S. Wagstaff, Lucas pseudoprimes, Mathematics of Computation, 35 (1980), 1391-1417.
P. Erdős and C. Pomerance, On the number of false witnesses for a composite number, Mathematics of Computation, 46 (1986), 259-279.
Keith Gibson, NMBRTHRY posting, Sep 07, 2001.
Romeo Meštrović, Generalizations of Carmichael numbers I, arXiv:1305.1867v1 [math.NT], May 04 2013.
Carl Pomerance, NMBRTHRY posting, Jul 26, 2001.
FORMULA
a(p^m) = p-1 and a(2p^m) = 1 for prime p and integer m > 0. - Thomas Ordowski, Dec 15 2013
a(n) = Sum_{k=1..n}(floor((k^(n-1)-1)/n)-floor((k^(n-1)-2)/n)). - Anthony Browne, May 11 2016
MATHEMATICA
f[n_] := Times @@ GCD[n - 1, First /@ FactorInteger@ n - 1]; f[1] = 1; Array[f, 92] (* Robert G. Wilson v, Aug 08 2011 *)
PROG
(PARI) for (n=1, 1000, f=factor(n)~; a=1; for (i=1, length(f), a*=gcd(f[1, i] - 1, n - 1)); write("b063994.txt", n, " ", a) ) \\ Harry J. Smith, Sep 05 2009
(PARI) a(n)=my(f=factor(n)[, 1]); prod(i=1, #f, gcd(f[i]-1, n-1)) \\ Charles R Greathouse IV, Dec 10 2013
(Python)
def a(n):
if n == 1: return 1
return len([1 for witness in range(1, n) if pow(witness, n - 1, n) == 1])
[a(n) for n in range(1, 100)]
(Haskell)
a063994 n = product $ map (gcd (n - 1) . subtract 1) $ a027748_row n
-- Reinhard Zumkeller, Mar 02 2013
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy,nice
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Sep 18 2001
EXTENSIONS
More terms from Robert G. Wilson v, Sep 21 2001
STATUS
approved