Jerri Golay
Wednesday, August 17, 2011
Another division algorithm question: Prove 4|n^4 - n?
This is the same as solving n^4 = n mod 4. Now just test n = 0,1,2,3 mod 4. Of these n = 0,1 mod 4 work. So n = 4m or 4m+1 where m is any integer.
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