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A136804
Nonsquares mod 257.
6
3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14, 19, 20, 24, 27, 28, 33, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 45, 47, 48, 51, 53, 54, 55, 56, 63, 65, 66, 69, 71, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 80, 82, 83, 85, 86, 87, 90, 91, 93, 94, 96, 97, 101, 102, 103, 105, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 112, 115, 119, 125, 126
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Because 257 is a Fermat prime, these numbers are all primitive roots (mod 257). Complement of A136803.
FORMULA
a(n) + a(129-n) = 257.
MAPLE
A136804 := {$(0..256)}: for n from 0 to 256 do A136804 := A136804 minus {n^2 mod 257}: od: op(sort(convert(A136804, list))); # Nathaniel Johnston, Jun 23 2011
MATHEMATICA
p=257; Select[Range[0, p-1], JacobiSymbol[ #, p]==-1&]
PROG
(PARI) for (n=0, 256, if (! issquare(Mod(n, 257)), print1(n, ", "))) \\ Michel Marcus, Mar 12 2017
(PARI) A136804=setminus(S=[0..256], Set([k^2 | k <- S]%257)); \\ M. F. Hasler, Nov 15 2017
CROSSREFS
Cf. A136803 (squares mod 257), A136805 and A136806 (squares/nonsquares mod 65537).
Sequence in context: A028811 A034035 A335911 * A129802 A023854 A324511
KEYWORD
fini,full,easy,nonn
AUTHOR
T. D. Noe, Jan 22 2008
STATUS
approved