Find the smallest prime such that the inequality above holds.
Notation: denotes the fractional part function .
This problem is a part of Tessellate S.T.E.M.S. (2019)
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For odd primes p , first throw out the p values in the sum with p ∣ n , as the fractional part will be zero. Now there are p ( p − 1 ) values of n in the sum not divisible by p . These pair off: it's not hard to see via the binomial theorem that n p + ( p 2 − n ) p is divisible by p 2 , so p 2 n p + p 2 ( p 2 − n ) p is an integer, so the corresponding fractional parts must sum to 1 . Hence the sum equals exactly 2 p ( p − 1 ) , and it's easy to find that 6 7 is the smallest prime p such that 2 p ( p − 1 ) > 2 0 1 6 .