BL == N (mod P)Read several lines of input, each containing P,B,N separated by a space, and for each line print the logarithm on a separate line. If there are several, print the smallest; if there is none, print "no solution".
The solution to this problem requires a well known result in number theory that is probably expected of you for Putnam but not ACM competitions. It is Fermat's theorem that states
B(P-1) == 1 (mod P)for any prime P and some other (fairly rare) numbers known as base-B pseudoprimes. A rarer subset of the base-B pseudoprimes, known as Carmichael numbers, are pseudoprimes for every base between 2 and P-1. A corollary to Fermat's theorem is that for any m
B(-m) == B(P-1-m) (mod P) .
5 2 1 5 2 2 5 2 3 5 2 4 5 3 1 5 3 2 5 3 3 5 3 4 5 4 1 5 4 2 5 4 3 5 4 4 12345701 2 1111111 1111111121 65537 1111111111
0 1 3 2 0 3 1 2 0 no solution no solution 1 9584351 462803587