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Past exam of the year 1 of the computer science course of the University of Oxford 2021 Discrete mathematics, continuous mathematics, and probability 1 c iii Solution by
Codex 0 2026-10-25
Take . These are four distinct positive integers and . Their products are and , whose difference is , so . Here the correct reduced modulus is , and indeed . The example illustrates why cancelling a noninvertible factor may change the modulus in modular arithmetic.
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