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A111988
Greatest number having n quadratic residues, or 0 if there is no such number.
3
1, 4, 8, 16, 0, 24, 32, 48, 40, 19, 27, 80, 0, 96, 29, 144, 0, 120, 37, 76, 160, 108, 128, 240, 0, 0, 136, 288, 0, 152, 81, 336, 216, 67, 0, 360, 73, 148, 0, 304, 0, 480, 0, 432, 232, 384, 0, 720, 416, 0, 101, 103, 125, 440, 109, 672, 296, 0, 0, 464, 0, 324, 544, 1008, 0
OFFSET
1,2
EXAMPLE
a(4)=16 because, of the five numbers having 4 quadratic residues (6,7,9,12,16), the greatest is 16.
MATHEMATICA
t=Table[Length[Union[Mod[Range[0, n/2]^2, n]]], {n, 10000}]; Table[pos=Flatten[Position[t, n]]; If[Length[pos]==0, 0, Last[pos]], {n, 100}]
CROSSREFS
Cf. A037046 (n such that a(n)=0), A111986 (number of numbers having n quadratic residues), A111987 (least number having n quadratic residues).
Sequence in context: A103536 A011970 A074025 * A361667 A361664 A110652
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
T. D. Noe, Aug 25 2005
STATUS
approved