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Find near miss prime multiples.

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Given a number $n \geq 3$ as input output the smallest number $k$ such that the modular residues of $k$ by the first $n$ primes is exactly $\{-1,0,1\}$.

That is there is a prime in the first $n$ primes that divides $k$, one that divides $k+1$ and one that divides $k-1$, and every prime in the first $n$ primes divides one of those three values.

For example if $n=5$, the first $5$ primes are $2, 3, 5, 7, 11$ the value must be at least $10$ since with anything smaller $11$ is an issue. So we start with $10$:

$$ 10 \equiv 0 \mod 2 $$$$ 10 \equiv 1 \mod 3 $$$$ 10 \equiv 0 \mod 5 $$$$ 10 \equiv 3 \mod 7 $$

Since $10 \mod 7 \equiv 3$, $10$ is not a solution so we try the next number.

  • $11 \equiv 4\mod 7$ so we try the next number.
  • $12 \equiv 2\mod 5$, so we try the next number.
  • $13 \equiv 3\mod 5$, so we try the next number.
  • $14 \equiv 3\mod 11$, so we try the next number.
  • $15 \equiv 4\mod 11$, so we try the next number.
  • $16 \equiv 2\mod 7$, so we try the next number.
  • $17 \equiv 2\mod 5$, so we try the next number.
  • $18 \equiv 3\mod 5$, so we try the next number.
  • $19 \equiv 5\mod 7$, so we try the next number.
  • $20 \equiv 9\mod 11$, so we try the next number.
$$ 21 \equiv 1 \mod 2 $$$$ 21 \equiv 0 \mod 3 $$$$ 21 \equiv 1 \mod 5 $$$$ 21 \equiv 0 \mod 7 $$$$ 21 \equiv -1 \mod 11 $$

21 satisfies the property so its the answer.

Task

Take as input $n \geq 3$ and give as output the smallest number satisfying.

This is code-golf. The goal is to minimize the size of your source code as measured in bytes

Test cases

3 -> 4
4 -> 6
5 -> 21
6 -> 155
7 -> 441
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Can you give a example program? The challenge is hard to understand (at least for me). And how can th... (2 comments)
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trichoplax‭ wrote over 1 year ago · edited over 1 year ago

To check if I've understood the requirement, does the following match the intent of the challenge?

Given $n\ge 3$ find the smallest $k$ such that the first $n$ primes all have a multiple in $\{k-1,k,k+1\}$.

WheatWizard‭ wrote over 1 year ago

No, the set needs to be exactly equal to, not just a subset of.

trichoplax‭ wrote over 1 year ago

Ah. I see what I missed now. Thank you.

Would the first sentence be clearer with the "of" replaced by something like "such that"?

Something like this:

Given a number $n$ as input output the smallest number $k$ such that the modular residues of $k$ by the first $n$ primes is exactly $\{-1,0,1\}$.