Saturday, October 6, 2018

All the binomial coefficients binomni are divisible by a prime p only if n is a power of p.

I'm looking for a "high school / undergraduate" demonstration for the:



All the binomial coefficients \binom{n}{i}=\frac{n!}{i!\cdot (n-i)!} for all i, 0\lt i \lt n, are divisible by a prime p only if n is a power of p.




There is a "elementary" (good for high school) demonstration of reciprocal here: http://mathhelpforum.com/number-theory/186439-binomial-coefficient.html



And for this part I'm trying to avoid using more advanced tools like the Theorem of Lucas or Kummer.



Thanks in advance to anyone who can help.

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