Note that
.
So when
, the remainder when
is divided by
is always 16. For
, the remainder when
is divided by
is shown
in the table below.
|
| 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|
| 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| remainder | 1 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
So there are 9 different remainders, namely 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
6, 7, 16.