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Fermat's little theorem   (English)

Definition (advanced level)

If p is a prime, and a is an integer that is not a multiple of p, then

Definition (undergraduate level)

The result that, for a prime p and any integer a \nmid p ,
ap−1 ≡ 1 ( mod p).
Equivalently, ap ≡ a (mod p) for every a . This is a special case of the Fermat-Euler theorem.

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