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A072860
Highest power of 3 dividing the period length of 1/prime(n) = A002371(n).
0
0, 1, 0, 3, 1, 3, 1, 9, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 27, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 81, 1, 1, 1, 9, 1, 3, 1, 9, 3, 3, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 1, 3, 1, 9, 1, 3, 1, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 3, 3, 27, 1, 1, 9, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 27, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 243, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 9, 27
OFFSET
1,4
PROG
(PARI) for n>3 ? a(n)=if(n<4, n==2, znorder(Mod(10, prime(n)))) ? for(n=4, 150, print1(gcd(a(n), 3^100), ", "))
CROSSREFS
Cf. A002371.
Sequence in context: A200476 A300251 A016572 * A068503 A073575 A363533
KEYWORD
base,easy,nonn
AUTHOR
Benoit Cloitre, Jul 26 2002
STATUS
approved