Problem about squares

Peter Pein petsie at dordos.net
Sat Jan 12 14:00:30 CET 2008


Jeffrey Shallit schrieb:
>> Jeffrey Shallit schrieb:
>>> -7 
>>>
>>>> Does there exist a non-square number which is square (mod 2^n) for every n
>>>>> = 0?
>>>
>> Mod[-7, 2^6] is 57
> 
> Yes, and 57 is a square mod 2^6.  11^2 == 57 == -7 (mod 64).
> 
> 
> 


It seems this works not only for -7 but for -A004215(k) (at least for 1 <= n
<= 500)






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