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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 ii Paper 1 18H iii Solution by
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For , the reduction of the cyclotomic polynomial has precisely the primitive th roots as its roots. If , the residue class of has multiplicative order in , so Lagrange's theorem gives . Conversely, if , cyclicity of the multiplicative group supplies an element of order , which is a root of ; any integer representative supplies . HenceThree explicit examples are with ; with ; and with . Each prime is coprime to the relevant and has the stated congruence.
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