Originally Posted by Ackbeet I'm not sure I buy the theorem, unless is a prime. Is that a convention in number theory? If so, I would probably write out the prime factorization of and go from there. Yes, usually stands for a prime number in elementary number theory.
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Originally Posted by Ackbeet
I'm not sure I buy the theorem, unlessis a prime. Is that a convention in number theory? If so, I would probably write out the prime factorization of
and go from there.
