login
A175182
Pisano period of the 3-Fibonacci numbers A006190.
18
1, 3, 2, 6, 12, 6, 16, 12, 6, 12, 8, 6, 52, 48, 12, 24, 16, 6, 40, 12, 16, 24, 22, 12, 60, 156, 18, 48, 28, 12, 64, 48, 8, 48, 48, 6, 76, 120, 52, 12, 28, 48, 42, 24, 12, 66, 96, 24, 112, 60, 16, 156, 26, 18, 24, 48, 40, 84, 24, 12, 30, 192, 48, 96, 156, 24, 136, 48, 22, 48, 144
OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Period of the sequence defined by reading A006190 modulo n.
LINKS
Sergio Falcon and Ángel Plaza, k-Fibonacci sequences modulo m, Chaos, Solit. Fractals 41 (2009), 497-504.
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Pisano period.
Wikipedia, Pisano period.
MAPLE
F := proc(k, n) option remember; if n <= 1 then n; else k*procname(k, n-1)+procname(k, n-2) ; end if; end proc:
Pper := proc(k, m) local cha, zer, n, fmodm ; cha := [] ; zer := [] ; for n from 0 do fmodm := F(k, n) mod m ; cha := [op(cha), fmodm] ; if fmodm = 0 then zer := [op(zer), n] ; end if; if nops(zer) = 5 then break; end if; end do ; if [op(1..zer[2], cha) ] = [ op(zer[2]+1..zer[3], cha) ] and [op(1..zer[2], cha)] = [ op(zer[3]+1..zer[4], cha) ] and [op(1..zer[2], cha)] = [ op(zer[4]+1..zer[5], cha) ] then return zer[2] ; elif [op(1..zer[3], cha) ] = [ op(zer[3]+1..zer[5], cha) ] then return zer[3] ; else return zer[5] ; end if; end proc:
k := 3 ; seq( Pper(k, m), m=1..80) ;
MATHEMATICA
Table[s = t = Mod[{0, 1}, n]; cnt = 1; While[tmp = Mod[3*t[[2]] + t[[1]], n]; t[[1]] = t[[2]]; t[[2]] = tmp; s!= t, cnt++]; cnt, {n, 100}] (* Vincenzo Librandi, Dec 20 2012, T. D. Noe *)
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,easy
AUTHOR
R. J. Mathar, Mar 01 2010
STATUS
approved