Search: id:A003558 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A003558 %S A003558 0,1,2,3,3,5,6,4,4,9,6,11,10,9,14,5,5,12,18,12,10,7,12,23,21,8,26,20,9, %T A003558 29,30,6,6,33,22,35,9,20,30,39,27,41,8,28,11,12,10,36,24,15,50,51,12,53, %U A003558 18,36,14,44,12,24,55,20,50,7,7,65,18,36,34,69,46,60,14,42,74,15,24,20 %N A003558 Least number m such that 2^m = +- 1 mod 2n + 1. %C A003558 Multiplicative suborder of 2 (mod 2n+1) (or sord(2, 2n+1)). %C A003558 For the complexity of computing this, see A002326. %C A003558 It appears that under iteration of the base-n Kaprekar map, for even n > 2 (A165012, A165051, A165090, A151949 in bases 4, 6, 8, 10), almost all cycles are of length a(n/2 - 1); proved under the additional constraint that the cycle contains at least one element satisfying "number of digits (n-1) - number of digits 0 = o(total number of digits)". [From Joseph Myers (jsm(AT)polyomino.org.uk), Sep 05 2009] %D A003558 H. Cohen, Course in Computational Algebraic Number Theory, Springer, 1993, p. 25, Algorithm 1.4.3 %D A003558 V. I. Levenshtein, Conflict-avoiding codes and cyclic triple systems [in Russian], Problemy Peredachi Informatsii, 43 (No. 3, 2007), 39-53. %H A003558 T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..1000 %H A003558 H. J. Smith, XICalc - Extra Precision Integer Calculator. %H A003558 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics, Multiplicative Order. %H A003558 S. Wolfram, Algebraic Properties of Cellular Automata (1984), Appendix B. %H A003558 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Math World: Suborder Function %t A003558 Suborder[a_,n_] := If[n>1 && GCD[a,n]==1, Min[MultiplicativeOrder[a,n, {-1,1}]],0]; Table[Suborder[2,2n+1], {n,0,100}] - T. D. Noe (noe(AT)sspectra.com), Aug 02 2006 %Y A003558 a(n) = log_2(A160657(n) + 2) - 1 [From Nathaniel Johnston (nathaniel(AT)nathanieljohnston.com), May 22 2009] %Y A003558 Sequence in context: A023160 A085312 A046530 this_sequence A141419 A072451 A023156 %Y A003558 Adjacent sequences: A003555 A003556 A003557 this_sequence A003559 A003560 A003561 %K A003558 nonn %O A003558 0,3 %A A003558 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com). %E A003558 More terms from Harry J. Smith (hjsmithh(AT)sbcglobal.net), Feb 11 2005 %E A003558 Entry revised by N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Aug 02 2006 Search completed in 0.001 seconds