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- From: goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart Goddard)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Number Theory Problems....
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.153727.20637@cs.rose-hulman.edu>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 15:37:27 GMT
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- I was right! I awoke this morning after 13 hours of sleep, feeling
- refreshed and nearly recovered from my cold, and, by gum, I do regret
- posting a tirade. There should be a law about posting under the
- influence of Nyquil. Anyway, as I said earlier, I have a few more of
- these problems which I have been too fuzzy-headed to do. Some are
- hard, and I don't see the trick. Some are easy and I haven't gotten
- around to them yet. They are book problems. I am not doing them for a
- grade. I am doing them for money. But not very much money. So, if
- you solve one of these problems, you would be helping me earn money.
- This rings a bit unethical, perhaps, but I don't have qualms about
- running across the hall and asking colleages for help, so maybe this
- isn't much different...? In any case, I usually treat helpful
- colleages to lunch, so I guess I could mail helpful netters some
- McDonald gift certificates, but I think I might just send cash instead.
-
- So here's the deal. If you send me a solution to one of the problems
- below, and I like, it I might send you 2 bucks. Also, I'll post nice
- solutions for the benefit of your ego! Further, like I said above, I'm
- in a much cheerier mood, and I don't really care if you flame me now.
- ZIPPEDY-DO-DAH!! ZIPPEDY-AY!!
-
- I would like to add that this project was a hugh mistake on my part.
- It has swallowed up every second of free time for the last 15 months of
- my life, and the money isn't really too much, and I just want the darn
- thing finished so I can get on with my life. Hence, I beg for your
- help here, to do the last few problems.
-
- Bart Goddard goddard@nextwork.rose-hulman.edu
-
- The book is Ken Rosen's Elementary Number Theory and Applications,
- (Addison-Wesley) 3rd Ed.
-
- Problems: (== means congruent to)
-
- 5.2.6 Show that if n= (a^{2p}-1)/(a^{2} - 1) where a in an integer,
- a>1, and p ia an odd prime not dividing a(a^{2}-1), then n is a
- pseudoprime to the base a. (i.e. a^n == a (mod n).)
- Hint: To establish that a^{n-1} ==1 (mod n), show that 2p | (n-1)
- and demonstrate that a^{2p} == 2 (mod n).
-
- 5.3.4 Show that if a and m are positive integers with (a,m)=1 and
- (a-1,m) =1, then 1+a+a^{2}+ ... + a^{\phi(m)-1} ==0 (mod n).
-
- 2.2.24 Let a and b be positive integers and let r_j and q_j be the
- remainders and quotients of the steps of the Euclidean algorithm as
- defined in "this section".
- a) find the value of \sum_{j=1}^{n} r_j q_j.
-
- b) find the value of \sum_{j=1}^{n} (r_j)^{2} q_j.
-
- 8.6.10 (\lambda(n) is the least universal exponent of n) Show that if c
- is a positive integer >1, then the integers 1^c, 2^c,..., (m-1)^c form
- a complete system of residues modulo m if and only if m is square-free
- and (c, \lambda(m)) = 1.
-
- 8.6.14 Find all Charmicheal numbers of the form 5pq where p and q are
- primes.
-
- 8.6.18 Show that if (a,n) = 1 then q_n(a+nc)==
- q_n(a + \lambda(n) c a^{-1} (mod n). (We define q_n(a) ==
- (a^{\lambda(n)}-1/n modulo n, with 0 <= q_n(a) < n.)
-
- 9.4.8 (which was 9.4.8 in the second edition) is too complicated for me
- to type (today). It's a double starred problem, and a reference would
- suffice.
-
- 10.4.18 Let k be a positive integer. Show that there are infinitely
- many positive integers D, such that the simple continued fraction
- expansion of \sqrt{D} has a period of length k. (hint: Let a_1 = 2
- a_2 = 5 and a_k = 2a_{k-1} + a_{k-2}. Show that if D = (ta_k +1)^2 +
- 2a_{k-1} +1, where t is a nonnegative integer, then \sqrt{D} has a
- period of length k+1.)
-
- There are some others, which I list by problem # only, since they a
- parts of a series of problems, and the definitions and notations are
- hard to extract in a consise form.
- 2.2.12
- 2.2.16
- 2.2.18
- 2.2.22
- 5.2.11(b)
- 5.3.10
- 8.6.16
- 8.7.6
- 8.7.8
- Enjoy!
-