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a(n) = (n-1)! mod n.
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%I #36 Feb 19 2024 10:30:12

%S 0,1,2,2,4,0,6,0,0,0,10,0,12,0,0,0,16,0,18,0,0,0,22,0,0,0,0,0,28,0,30,

%T 0,0,0,0,0,36,0,0,0,40,0,42,0,0,0,46,0,0,0,0,0,52,0,0,0,0,0,58,0,60,0,

%U 0,0,0,0,66,0,0,0,70,0,72,0,0,0,0,0,78,0,0,0,82,0,0,0,0,0,88,0,0,0,0,0

%N a(n) = (n-1)! mod n.

%C It appears that a(n) = (n!*h(n)) mod n, where h(n) = Sum_{k = 1..n} 1/k. - _Gary Detlefs_, Sep 04 2010

%C Indeed: It is easy to show n!*h(n) - (n-1)! = n*(n-1)!*h(n-1). Since (n-1)!*h(n-1) is integral, n!*h(n) == (n-1)! mod n. - _Franz Vrabec_, Apr 08 2017

%H Seiichi Manyama, <a href="/A061006/b061006.txt">Table of n, a(n) for n = 1..1000</a>

%H Wikipedia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson&#39;s_theorem">Wilson's theorem</a>

%F a(4) = 2, a(p) = p - 1 for p prime (Wilson's_theorem), a(n) = 0 otherwise. Apart from n = 4, a(n) = (n-1)*A061007(n) = (n-1)*A010051(n).

%e a(4) = 2 since (4-1)! = 6 = 2 mod 4.

%e a(5) = 4 since (5-1)! = 24 = 4 mod 5.

%e a(6) = 0 since (6-1)! = 120 = 0 mod 6.

%t Table[Mod[(n - 1)!, n], {n, 100}] (* _Alonso del Arte_, Feb 16 2014 *)

%o (PARI) a(n)=if(isprime(n),n-1,if(n==4,2,0)) \\ _Charles R Greathouse IV_, Mar 31 2014

%Y Positive for all but the first term of A046022. Cf. A000040, A000142, A061007, A061008, A061009.

%K nonn,easy

%O 1,3

%A _Henry Bottomley_, Apr 12 2001