A characterization of a prime p from the binomial coefficient {n \choose p}

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Authors Alexandre Laugier, Manjil Pratim Saikia

Publication date 7 September 2012

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Congruences; primitive roots; residue systems (11A07) Primes (11A41) Factorization; primality (11A51) Binomial coefficients; factorials; (q)-identities (11B65)

Abstract: We complete a proof of a theorem that was inspired by an Indian Olympiad problem, which gives an interesting characterization of a prime number $p$ with respect to the binomial coefficients $nchoosep$. We also derive a related result which generalizes the theorem in one direction.

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