For The Love of Cycling — ℤₙ* The Multiplicative group for ℤₙ modulo n

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Okay … let me ask you. For the numbers up to 10, which numbers do not share any factors with 10? Remember that 10 has factors of 2 and 5, so you can’t use any number which have any of these factors.

Let’s try … 1 … that’s okay.
Let’s try … 2 … nope! It is 2 x1. Reject!
Let’s try … 3 … that’s okay.
Let’s try … 4 .. nope. It is 2 x2. Reject…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
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