Periodicity of p-adic expansion of rational number

Rafik Belhadef, Henri-Alex Esbelin

Abstract

In this paper we give an algorithm to calculate the coefficients of the p-adic expansion of a rational numbers, and we give a method to decide whether this expansion is periodic or ultimately periodic.

How to Cite this Article

Rafik Belhadef, Henri-Alex Esbelin, Periodicity of p-adic expansion of rational number, J. Math. Comput. Sci., 11 (2021), 1704-1713. https://doi.org/10.28919/jmcs/5384

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