Problem about squares

Peter Pein petsie at dordos.net
Fri Jan 11 16:51:25 CET 2008


David W. Wilson schrieb:
> Does there exist a non-square number which is square (mod 2^n) for every
> n >= 0?
> 
Call this non-square a0 and have a look at n0=ceil(log(a0)/log(2)). for every
n>=n0: a0 == a0 mod 2^n and a0 has to be square and non-square simultaneously.
cantradiction.

P²





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