[seqfan] Re: Shouldn't A158624 be hard and base?

[D. S. McNeil]

> I don't understand the sequence.  5^2 = 1 mod 8, so 5^n ends in ...625
> if n is even and ...125 if n is odd (for n > 2).  So it doesn't
> stabilize to the indicated value (or any value!).

As I read it, it doesn't claim that it's the value that it stabilizes
at, it's saying that it's the (presumably least) upper bound, i.e. the
supremum.


Doug