Consider the following arithmetic sequence of positive integers:
Find the smallest positive integer , for which there exists at least one positive integer (with ) such that .
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We can directly check a n = 1 0 0 0 0 + 1 0 3 ( n − 1 )
Then a m ≡ a n ( m o d 2 0 1 7 ) 1 0 0 0 0 + 1 0 3 ( m − 1 ) ≡ 1 0 0 0 0 + 1 0 3 ( n − 1 ) ( m o d 2 0 1 7 ) 1 0 3 m ≡ 1 0 3 n ( m o d 2 0 1 7 )
Since 2 0 1 7 is prime and 1 0 3 ≡ 0 ( m o d 2 0 1 7 ) (or more generally, since g cd ( 1 0 3 , 2 0 1 7 ) = 1 ), we can cancel it from both sides to give m ≡ n ( m o d 2 0 1 7 ) , so there exists some integer k such that m = n + 2 0 1 7 k
Since m > n , k is positive, so m is minimized when n = k = 1 , giving m = 1 + 2 0 1 7 = 2 0 1 8