An awful problem about integers in base four
Let be a prime, and let be the Fermat quotient of to base . The following curious congruence was conjectured by L. Skula and proved by A. Granville In this note we establish the above congruence by entirely elementary number theory arguments.
A generalization of the well-known Fibonacci sequence given by F₀ = 0, F₁ = 1 and for all n ≥ 0 is the k-generalized Fibonacci sequence whose first k terms are 0,..., 0, 1 and each term afterwards is the sum of the preceding k terms. For the Fibonacci sequence the formula holds for all n ≥ 0. In this paper, we show that there is no integer x ≥ 2 such that the sum of the xth powers of two consecutive k-generalized Fibonacci numbers is again a k-generalized Fibonacci number. This generalizes...