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A054471 Smallest prime p having n different cycles in decimal expansions of k/p, k=1..p-1.

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%I A054471 #52 Feb 19 2025 16:15:29
%S A054471 7,3,103,53,11,79,211,41,73,281,353,37,2393,449,3061,1889,137,2467,
%T A054471 16189,641,3109,4973,11087,1321,101,7151,7669,757,38629,1231,49663,
%U A054471 12289,859,239,27581,9613,18131,13757,33931,9161,118901,6763,18233
%N A054471 Smallest prime p having n different cycles in decimal expansions of k/p, k=1..p-1.
%C A054471 First cyclic number of n-th degree (or n-th order): the reciprocals of these numbers belong to one of n different cycles. Each cycle has (a(n) - 1)/n digits.
%C A054471 From _Robert G. Wilson v_, Aug 21 2014: (Start)
%C A054471 recursive by indices:
%C A054471  1,    7,        211,            79337,    634776923741, ...
%C A054471  2,    3,        103,          2368589, 785245568161181, ...
%C A054471  4,   53,     135257,    2332901103899, ...
%C A054471  5,   11,        353,          3795457, 693814982285339, ...
%C A054471  6,   79,      26861,      23947548497, ...
%C A054471  8,   41,     118901,    1015118238709, ...
%C A054471  9,   73,     142789,     267291583927, ...
%C A054471 10,  281,    3097183,   66880786504811, ...
%C A054471 12,   37,      18131,     105385168331, ...
%C A054471 13, 2393,   11160953, 7140939250711817, ...
%C A054471 14, 4999, 2148340247,          > 10^19,
%C A054471 ... .
%C A054471 (End)
%D A054471 John H. Conway and R. K. Guy, The Book of Numbers, Copernicus Press, p. 162.
%D A054471 M. Gardner, Mathematical Circus, Cambridge University Press (1996).
%H A054471 Robert G. Wilson v, <a href="/A054471/b054471.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..65000</a> (first 1000 terms from _T. D. Noe_)
%H A054471 H. Richter, <a href="http://hr.userweb.mwn.de/numb/period.html">The period length of the decimal expansion of a fraction</a>
%H A054471 <a href="/index/1#1overn">Index entries for sequences related to decimal expansion of 1/n</a>
%t A054471 a[n_Integer] := Block[{m = If[ OddQ@ n, 2n, n]}, p = m +1; While[ !PrimeQ@ p || p != 1 + n*MultiplicativeOrder[10, p], p = p += m]; p]; a[1] = 7; a[4] = 53; Array[f, 50] (* _Robert G. Wilson v_, Apr 19 2005; revised Aug 20 2014 and Feb 14 2025 *)
%Y A054471 First time n appears in A006556.
%Y A054471 Cf. A006883, A097443, A055628, A056157, A056210, A056211, A056212, A056213, A056214, A056215, A056216, A056217, A098680, which are sequences of primes p where the period of the reciprocal is (p-1)/n for n=1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13.
%Y A054471 Cf. A101208, A101209 (similar sequences for base 2 and base 3).
%K A054471 nonn,easy,nice,base
%O A054471 1,1
%A A054471 _Robert G. Wilson v_, 1994; Antreas P. Hatzipolakis (xpolakis(AT)otenet.gr), May 22 2000
%E A054471 More terms from _David W. Wilson_, May 22 2000