OFFSET
1,3
LINKS
Jeptha Davenport, Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..500
EXAMPLE
For a(1): b^c mod 1 = 0, so only 1 remainder set (0) is possible, and its size is 1.
For a(2): for any b, b^c will be even if b is even, or odd if b is odd, so b^c mod 2 has only 1 remainder for a given b (either (0), size 1, or (1), also size 1).
For a(5): choosing c for an arbitrary b, for b = 2, 2^2 mod 5 = 4, 2^3 mod 5 = 3, 2^4 mod 5 = 1, 2^5 mod 5 = 2, 2^6 mod 5 = 4, etc. (4 remainders); for base 4, 4^1 mod 5 = 4, 4^2 mod 5 = 1, 4^3 mod 5 = 4, etc. (2 remainders); for base 21, 21^1 mod 5 = 1, 21^819 mod 5 = 1, etc. (1 remainder); these are the only numbers of remainders which occur for any c given b for b^c modulo 5, so the number of remainder set sizes for n = 5 is 3 (4, 2, or 1-size remainder sets).
For a(100): number of remainder set sizes possible for any c given b is 10 (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 20, or 21-size remainder sets).
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Jeptha Davenport, Dec 31 2016
STATUS
approved