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Chapter XI in `History of the Theory of Numbers', Vol.I,
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W.J. Leveque,
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R.K. Guy,
Reviews in Number Theory (1973-1983), sections A08 and B64
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D. Singmaster,
Divisibility of binomial and multinomial coefficients by primes and prime powers,
in `A collection of manuscripts related to the Fibonacci sequence',
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K.B. Stolarsky,
Power and Exponential sums of digit sums related to binomial coefficient parity,
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Books which contain material used herein.



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Le grand crible dans la théorie analytique des nombres,
Astérisque 18 (1987/1974) 103 pp.
H. Davenport,
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R.K. Guy,
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H. Halberstam and H.-E. Richert,
Sieve Methods, (Academic Press, London, 1974).
B. Mandelbrot,
The Fractal Geometry of Nature,
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E.C. Titchmarsh,
The Theory of the Riemann Zeta-function 2nd ed. (revised by Heath-Brown, D.R.), (Oxford U. Press, New York, 1988).
L.C. Washington,
Introduction to Cyclotomic Fields,
(Springer-Verlag, New York, 1982).