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Note that <math>a_n = a_{n+1}</math> if and only if <math>b_n</math> is even. This occurs when <math>n</math> is congruent to <math>0, 3, 4</math> or <math>6</math> mod <math>11</math>, giving four solutions for each period. | Note that <math>a_n = a_{n+1}</math> if and only if <math>b_n</math> is even. This occurs when <math>n</math> is congruent to <math>0, 3, 4</math> or <math>6</math> mod <math>11</math>, giving four solutions for each period. | ||
− | From <math>1</math> to <math>1001</math> (which is <math>91 \times 11</math>), there are <math>91 \times 4 = 364</math> values of <math>n</math>. We subtract <math>1</math> from the total since <math>1001</math> satisfies the criteria but is greater than <math>1000</math> to get a final answer of <math>\fbox{363}</math>. | + | From <math>1</math> to <math>1001</math> (which is <math>91 \times 11</math>), there are <math>91 \times 4 = 364</math> values of <math>n</math>. We subtract <math>1</math> from the total since <math>1001</math> satisfies the criteria but is greater than <math>1000</math> to get a final answer of <math>\fbox{363}</math> . |
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For each positive integer let be the least positive integer multiple of such that Find the number of positive integers less than or equal to that satisfy
Solution 1
Denote . Thus, for each , we need to find smallest positive integer , such that
Thus, we need to find smallest , such that
Now, we find the smallest , such that . By Fermat's Theorem, we must have . That is, . We find .
Therefore, for each , we need to find smallest , such that
We have the following results:
If
If
If
If
If
If
If
If
If
If
If
Therefore, in each cycle, , we have , , , , such that . That is, . At the boundary of two consecutive cycles, .
We have . Therefore, the number of feasible is .
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Solution 2
Observe that if is divisible by , . If not, .
This encourages us to let . Rewriting the above equations, we have The first few values of are and . We notice that , and thus the sequence is periodic with period .
Note that if and only if is even. This occurs when is congruent to or mod , giving four solutions for each period.
From to (which is ), there are values of . We subtract from the total since satisfies the criteria but is greater than to get a final answer of . ~Bxiao31415
(small changes by bobjoebilly and IraeVid13)
Solution 3 (Binary Interpretation, Computer Scientists' Playground)
We first check that hence we are always seeking a unique modular inverse of , , such that .
Now that we know that is unique, we proceed to recast this problem in binary. This is convenient because is simply the last -bits of in binary, and if , it means that of the last bits of , only the rightmost bit (henceforth th bit) is .
Also, multiplication in binary can be thought of as adding shifted copies of the multiplicand. For example:
Now note , and recall that our objective is to progressively zero out the leftmost bits of except for the th bit.
Write , we note that uniquely defines the th bit of , and once we determine , uniquely determines the st bit of , so on and so forth.
For example, satisfies Next, we note that the second bit of is , so we must also have in order to zero it out, giving
happens precisely when . In fact we can see this in action by working out . Note that has 1 on the nd bit, so we must choose . This gives
Note that since the rd and th bit are , , and this gives .
It may seem that this process will take forever, but note that has bits behind the leading digit, and in the worst case, the leading digits of will have a cycle length of at most . In fact, we find that the cycle length is , and in the process found that , , and .
Since we have complete cycles of length , and the last partial cycle yields and , we have a total of values of such that
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