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A071126
Length of least repunit which is a multiple of the n-th prime, or 0 if no such multiple exists.
7
0, 3, 0, 6, 2, 6, 16, 18, 22, 28, 15, 3, 5, 21, 46, 13, 58, 60, 33, 35, 8, 13, 41, 44, 96, 4, 34, 53, 108, 112, 42, 130, 8, 46, 148, 75, 78, 81, 166, 43, 178, 180, 95, 192, 98, 99, 30, 222, 113, 228, 232, 7, 30, 50, 256, 262, 268, 5, 69, 28, 141, 146, 153, 155, 312, 79, 110
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
If prime(n) = p then a(n) is a divisor of p-1. - Amarnath Murthy, Nov 11 2002
LINKS
Amarnath Murthy, On the divisors of Smarandache Unary Sequence, Smarandache Notions Journal, Vol. 11, 2000.
A. A. A. Steward, Factorization of Repunits[up to R(196)]. Cached copy, Sep 25 2000.
EXAMPLE
The 13th prime, 41, divides the repunit 11111, the smallest among all R(5k) which are multiples of 41.
MATHEMATICA
Table[Function[p, If[Divisible[10, p], 0, k = {1}; While[! Divisible[ FromDigits@ k, p], AppendTo[k, 1]]; Length@ k]]@ Prime@ n, {n, 67}] (* Michael De Vlieger, May 20 2017 *)
CROSSREFS
Number of 1's in A077573(n).
Cf. A000042. Apart from a(2), identical to A002371.
Sequence in context: A334950 A171419 A077574 * A077187 A011079 A334874
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Lekraj Beedassy, May 28 2002
STATUS
approved