On the largest prime factors of n and n+1. (Short Communication).
We compare the growth of the least common multiple of the numbers and , where is a Lucas sequence and is some sequence of positive integers.
Generalizing a result of Pourchet, we show that, if are power sums over satisfying suitable necessary assumptions, the length of the continued fraction for tends to infinity as . This will be derived from a uniform Thue-type inequality for the rational approximations to the rational numbers , .
Binary signed digit representations (BSDR’s) of integers have been studied since the 1950’s. Their study was originally motivated by multiplication and division algorithms for integers and later by arithmetics on elliptic curves. Our paper is motivated by differential cryptanalysis of hash functions. We give an upper bound for the number of BSDR’s of a given weight. Our result improves the upper bound on the number of BSDR’s with minimal weight stated by Grabner and Heuberger in On the number of...