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The Distribution Of Totatives

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

D. H. Lehmer*
Affiliation:
University of California
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This paper is concerned with the numbers which are relatively prime to a given positive integer

where the p's are the distinct prime factors of n. Since these numbers recur periodically with period n, it suffices to study the ϕ(n) numbers ≤n and relatively prime to n.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1955

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