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Past exam of the options I course of the University of Oxford 2007 C C1 Solution by
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Euler's theorem states that whenever , where counts the invertible residue classes. For each prime-power divisor, the same theorem gives . Since the exponent defined in the source is a multiple of every one of these exponents, raising that congruence to the corresponding integer power givesThe prime powers are pairwise coprime, so their product divides , proving the congruence modulo .
For the displayed composite integer,Thus every integer coprime to 561 satisfies . This is a Carmichael number. The source's prime-power least common multiple need not be the minimal universal exponent for all moduli; for powers of two its definition can exceed the usual Carmichael function. No minimality claim is needed here.
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