A remark on Prof. Nielsen's note on factorial coefficients. (Q1485998)

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    A remark on Prof. Nielsen's note on factorial coefficients. (English)
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    (Siehe JFM 41.0226.01) Es sei \((x-1)(x-2)\cdots(x-n+1)=x^{n-1}-C_n^1 x^{n-2}+C_n^2 x^{n-3}-\cdots+(- 1)^{n-1}C_n^{n-1}\). Für die Primzahlen \(p>3\) ist \(C_p^{p-2}\equiv 0 (\text{mod}.\,p^2)\), wie lange bekannt. -- \textit{Valentiner} leitet die Kongruenz aus dem \textit{Fermat}schen Theorem her.
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