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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2003 ia Paper 4 7C ii Solution by
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Put . The Fibonacci recurrence matrix modulo an integer is , so . Direct matrix multiplication givesTaking the second coordinate provesFor explicit arithmetic behind the second power, squaring gives , whose square is the displayed . Thus the modular period assertions follow from calculations and the recurrence, not from quoting a period theorem.
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