Bourbaki

Exercise 23, § 1

Algebra, VII, p. 53

Let n>1n > 1 be a rational integer; show that the gcd of the n−1n-1 binomial coefficients (nk)\binom{n}{k} (1≤k≤n−11 \leq k \leq n-1) is equal to 1 if n is divisible by two distinct prime numbers, and is equal to p if n is a power of the prime number p.

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