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, 8 years agoanswered Fermat's little theorem question
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(Reading that code, I'm having trouble deciding whether it could work for arbitrarily large values of N.) --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 17:21, 8 July 2015 (UTC)
ANSWER: Fermat's little theorem says x^p == x (mod p). Think of this as saying x^{p-1} == 1 OR x == 0 (mod p). Now x^{5-1}=x^{3-1}^2, so it is 1 mod 3. --[[User:TomHyer|Tom Hyer]]
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