Forssa Institute of Technology, Saksankatu 46, FIN-30100 Forssa, Finland
T. Metsänkylä ; Department of Mathematics, University of Turku, FIN-20014 Turku, Finland
Abstract:
The authors carried out a numerical search for Fermat quotients vanishing mod , for , up to . This article reports on the results and surveys the associated theoretical properties of . The approach of fixing the prime rather than the base leads to some aspects of the theory apparently not published before.