Products of factorials modulo p

Florian Luca; Pantelimon Stănică

Colloquium Mathematicae (2003)

  • Volume: 96, Issue: 2, page 191-205
  • ISSN: 0010-1354

Abstract

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We show that if p ≠ 5 is a prime, then the numbers 1 / p ( p m , . . . , m t ) | t 1 , m i 0 f o r i = 1 , . . . , t a n d i = 1 t m i = p cover all the nonzero residue classes modulo p.

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Florian Luca, and Pantelimon Stănică. "Products of factorials modulo p." Colloquium Mathematicae 96.2 (2003): 191-205. <http://eudml.org/doc/285097>.

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