The fractional parts of the Bernoulli numbers (Q1257036)

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The fractional parts of the Bernoulli numbers
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    The fractional parts of the Bernoulli numbers (English)
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    It is proved that the fractional parts of the Bernoulli numbers \(B_{2 k}\) are dense in the interval \((0,1)\). Furthermore, for every positive integer \(k\), the set of all \(m\) for which \(B_{2 m}\) has the same fractional part as \(B_{2 k}\) as positive asymptotic density. The second statement is proved via this result on divisibility by \(p-1\): For each \(\varepsilon> 0\), there is a \(T=T(\varepsilon)\) so that if \(x> T\), then the number of \(m\leq x\) which have a divisor \(p-1> T\), with \(p\) prime is less than \(\varepsilon x\). The paper concludes with several related open questions.
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    positive asymptotic density
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    divisibility
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    Bernoulli number
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    fractional part
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    shifted prime
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