A simple number theoretic result

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Authors Jure Vogrinc, Manjil Pratim Saikia

Publication date 19 December 2011

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.6707

zbMATH Keywords

binomial coefficientLucas' Theoremprimality testing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Primes (11A41) Factorization; primality (11A51)

Abstract: We derive an interesting congruence relation motivated by an Indian Olympiad problem. We give three different proofs of the theorem and mention a few interesting related results.

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