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A354920 a(n) = A182665(n) mod 2, where A182665(n) is the greatest x < n such that n divides x*(x-1). 5

%I #16 Jun 13 2022 02:25:26

%S 0,1,1,1,1,0,1,1,1,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,0,

%T 1,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,1,0,0,0,1,0,1,1,1,0,1,1,1,0,0,1,0,1,1,0,

%U 0,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,0,0,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,0,0,0,1,1,0,1,1,0,0,0,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1

%N a(n) = A182665(n) mod 2, where A182665(n) is the greatest x < n such that n divides x*(x-1).

%H Antti Karttunen, <a href="/A354920/b354920.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..100000</a>

%H <a href="/index/Ch#char_fns">Index entries for characteristic functions</a>

%F a(n) = A000035(A182665(n)).

%F a(n) = A000035(n) XOR A354918(n), where XOR is bitwise-XOR, A003987.

%o (PARI) A354920(n) = forstep(x=n-1,0,-1,if(!((x*(x-1))%n),return(x%2)));

%o (Python 3.8+)

%o from itertools import combinations

%o from math import prod

%o from sympy import factorint

%o from sympy.ntheory.modular import crt

%o def A354920(n):

%o if n == 1:

%o return 0

%o plist = tuple(p**q for p, q in factorint(n).items())

%o return 1 if len(plist) == 1 else (n-int(min(min(crt((m, n//m), (0, -1))[0], crt((n//m, m), (0, -1))[0]) for m in (prod(d) for l in range(1, len(plist)//2+1) for d in combinations(plist, l))))) & 1 # _Chai Wah Wu_, Jun 12 2022

%Y Parity of A182665. Characteristic function of A354921.

%Y Cf. A000035, A003987, A354918.

%K nonn

%O 1

%A _Antti Karttunen_, Jun 12 2022

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