A066799 Square array read by antidiagonals of eventual period of powers of k mod n; period of repeating digits of 1/n in base k.

1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 4, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 4, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 6, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 2, 3, 2, 6, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, 6, 1, 1, 4, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 4, 1, 2, 2, 3, 4, 10, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 2, 2, 1, 1, 6, 2, 5, 2, 1, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 5, 2, 12

Offset: 1

Author

Henry Bottomley, Dec 20 2001

Keywords

• nonn
• tabl
• base

Comments

The determinant of the n X n matrix made from the northwest corner of this array is 0^(n-1). - Iain Fox, Mar 12 2018

Examples

			Rows start: 1,1,1,1,1,...; 1,1,1,1,1,...; 1,2,1,1,2,...; 1,1,2,1,1; 1,4,4,2,1,... T(3,2)=2 since the powers of 2 become 1,2,1,2,1,2,... mod 3 with period 2. T(4,2)=1 since the powers of 2 become 1,2,0,0,0,0,... mod 4 with eventual period 1.
Beginning of array:
+-----+--------------------------------------------------------------------
| n\k |  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9  10  11  12  13  14  15  16  ...
+-----+--------------------------------------------------------------------
|  1  |  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1, ...
|  2  |  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1,  1, ...
|  3  |  1,  2,  1,  1,  2,  1,  1,  2,  1,  1,  2,  1,  1,  2,  1,  1, ...
|  4  |  1,  1,  2,  1,  1,  1,  2,  1,  1,  1,  2,  1,  1,  1,  2,  1, ...
|  5  |  1,  4,  4,  2,  1,  1,  4,  4,  2,  1,  1,  4,  4,  2,  1,  1, ...
|  6  |  1,  2,  1,  1,  2,  1,  1,  2,  1,  1,  2,  1,  1,  2,  1,  1, ...
|  7  |  1,  3,  6,  3,  6,  2,  1,  1,  3,  6,  3,  6,  2,  1,  1,  3, ...
|  8  |  1,  1,  2,  1,  2,  1,  2,  1,  1,  1,  2,  1,  2,  1,  2,  1, ...
| ... |
		

Links

• Iain Fox, Antidiagonals n = 1..141 of array, flattened

Crossrefs

Columns are A000012, A007733, A007734, A007735, A007736, A007737, A007738, A007739, A007740, A007732. A002322 is the highest value in each row and the least common multiple of each row, while the number of distinct values in each row is A066800.

Programs

Mathematica

t[n_, k_] := For[p = PowerMod[k, n, n]; m = n + 1, True, m++, If[PowerMod[k, m, n] == p, Return[m - n]]]; Flatten[Table[t[n - k + 1, k], {n, 1, 14}, {k, n, 1, -1}]] (* Jean-François Alcover, Jun 04 2012 *)

PARI

a(n, k) = my(p=k^n%n); for(m=n+1, +oo, if(k^m%n==p, return(m-n))) \\ Iain Fox, Mar 12 2018

Formula

T(n, k) = T(n, k-n) if k > n.

T(n, n) = T(n, n+1) = 1.

T(n, n-1) = 2.