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On Binomial Coefficient Residues

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J . B. Roberts*
Affiliation:
Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
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The number of binomial coefficients , which are congruent to j , 0 ≤ jp − 1, modulo the prime number p is denoted by θj(n). In this paper we give systems of simultaneous linear difference equations with constant coefficients whose solutions would yield the quantities θj(n) explicitly.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1957

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