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The distribution of totatives
preprint
posted on 2006-02-06, 16:38 authored by R.R. Hall, Peter ShiuD. H. Lehmer initiated the study of the distribution of totatives, which are numbers coprime with a given integer.
This led to various problems considered by P. Erdos, who made a conjecture on such distributions. We clarify results
due to Erdos and prove his conjecture by establishing a theorem on the ordering of residues.
History
School
- Science
Department
- Mathematical Sciences
Pages
106089 bytesPublication date
2000Notes
This is a pre-print. The definitive version: HALL, R.R. and SHIU, P., 2002. The distribution of totatives. Canadian Mathematical Bulletin, 45 (1), pp. 109-114.Language
- en
