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  2. Multiplicative order - Wikipedia

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    The multiplicative order of a number a modulo n is the order of a in the multiplicative group whose elements are the residues modulo n of the numbers coprime to n, and whose group operation is multiplication modulo n. This is the group of units of the ring Zn; it has φ ( n) elements, φ being Euler's totient function, and is denoted as U ( n ...

  3. Modular arithmetic - Wikipedia

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    Adding 4 hours to 9 o'clock gives 1 o'clock, since 13 is congruent to 1 modulo 12. In mathematics, modular arithmetic is a system of arithmetic for integers, where numbers "wrap around" when reaching a certain value, called the modulus. The modern approach to modular arithmetic was developed by Carl Friedrich Gauss in his book Disquisitiones ...

  4. Hensel's lemma - Wikipedia

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    Since of these only g(1) and g(7) are 0 mod 16 we can lift only 1 and 7 to modulo 16, giving 1, 7, 9, and 15 mod 16. Of these, only 7 and 9 give g(x) = 0 mod 32, so these can be raised giving 7, 9, 23, and 25 mod 32. It turns out that for every integer k ≥ 3, there are four liftings of 1 mod 2 to a root of g(x) mod 2 k.

  5. Eisenstein's criterion - Wikipedia

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    For example, in the case x 2 + x + 2 given above, the discriminant is −7 so that 7 is the only prime that has a chance of making it satisfy the criterion. Modulo 7, it becomes (x3) 2 — a repeated root is inevitable, since the discriminant is 0 mod 7. Therefore the variable shift is actually something predictable.

  6. Quadratic residue - Wikipedia

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    The quadratic excess E ( p) is the number of quadratic residues on the range (0, p /2) minus the number in the range ( p /2, p) (sequence A178153 in the OEIS ). For p congruent to 1 mod 4, the excess is zero, since −1 is a quadratic residue and the residues are symmetric under r ↔ p − r.

  7. Dirichlet character - Wikipedia

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    Dirichlet character. In analytic number theory and related branches of mathematics, a complex-valued arithmetic function is a Dirichlet character of modulus (where is a positive integer) if for all integers and : [1] that is, is completely multiplicative. ; that is, is periodic with period .

  8. Greedy algorithm for Egyptian fractions - Wikipedia

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    Since P 0 (x) < 0 for x = 1, and P 0 (x) > 0 for all x2, there must be a root of P 0 (x) between 1 and 2. That is, the first term of the greedy expansion of the golden ratio is ⁠ 1 / 1 ⁠. If x 1 is the remaining fraction after the first step of the greedy expansion, it satisfies the equation P 0 (x 1 + 1) = 0, which can be expanded as ...

  9. Modulo (mathematics) - Wikipedia

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    Modulo is a mathematical jargon that was introduced into mathematics in the book Disquisitiones Arithmeticae by Carl Friedrich Gauss in 1801. [3] Given the integers a, b and n, the expression "a ≡ b (mod n)", pronounced "a is congruent to b modulo n", means that a − b is an integer multiple of n, or equivalently, a and b both share the same remainder when divided by n.