Could anyone explain to me the proof for such a method of checking whether a number is primitive root or not http://zobayer.blogspot.com/2010/02/primitive-root.html
why should i check only certain numbers to be equal to one or not ?
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Could anyone explain to me the proof for such a method of checking whether a number is primitive root or not http://zobayer.blogspot.com/2010/02/primitive-root.html
why should i check only certain numbers to be equal to one or not ?
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Since n is a prime, we know that gφ(n) = gn - 1 = 1. We want to know if there is another exponent e < n - 1 such that ge = 1.
Let e be the smallest, positive integer with ge = 1. This means that the exponents that give 1 are exactly 0, e, 2e, 3e, .... This means that e divides n - 1. If e is really smaller than n - 1, then there must exist a prime factor p of n - 1, such that e still divides . Which means that .
So it is sufficient to check if any of the terms , with p prime and p | n - 1, is equal to 1.