Lucas-Carmichael Numbers
January 6, 2015
We start the new year with a simple task from number theory. A Lucas-Carmichael number is a positive composite integer n, odd and square-free, such that p + 1 divides n + 1 for all prime factors p of n. For instance, 2015 is a Lucas-Carmichael number because 2015 = 5 × 13 × 31 and 5 + 1 = 6, 13 + 1 = 14, and 31 + 2 = 32 all divide 2015 + 1 = 2016. The restriction that n be square-free prevents the cubes of prime numbers, such as 8 or 27, from being considered as Lucas-Carmichael numbers.
Your task is to write a program to find all the Lucas-Carmichael numbers less than a million. When you are finished, you are welcome to read or run a suggested solution, or to post your own solution or discuss the exercise in the comments below.
Programming Praxis 