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A111027
Wieferich primes in base 12.
13
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
I have searched up to the 9 millionth prime, 160481183 and gave up trying to find a third term. The sequence is conjectured to be infinite. If the behavior is similar to base 10, A045616, then the next term could be greater than 2*10^11. In base 12 with X for ten and E for eleven the sequence is [1685, 5E685] so it would be interesting to see if the third term ends in 685 as well. These primes are also the Wieferich numbers in base 12: 12^phi(n) = 1 mod n^2.
Richard Fischer has carried this search to 4.8 * 10^13 (as of January 2014). - John Blythe Dobson, Mar 06 2014
LINKS
Amir Akbary and Sahar Siavashi, The Largest Known Wieferich Numbers, INTEGERS, 18(2018), A3. See Table 1 p. 5.
FORMULA
12^(p-1) == 1 mod p^2
MAPLE
WP:=[]: for z from 1 to 1 do for k from 1 to 9000000 do p:=ithprime(k); if 12 &^(p-1) mod p^2 = 1 then WP:=[op(WP), p]; printf("p=%d, ", p); fi; if k mod 10^5 = 0 then printf("k=%d, ", k); fi; od; od; WP;
MATHEMATICA
Select[Prime[Range[1000000]], PowerMod[12, # - 1, #^2] == 1 &] (* Robert Price, May 17 2019 *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,bref,more
AUTHOR
Walter Kehowski, Oct 05 2005
STATUS
approved