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The tutor investigates a problem involving the remainder of a power. On page 48 of his Elementary Number Theory, second edition, Underwood Dudley requests the remainder when 20012001 is divided by 26. Solution: 2001 mod 26 = 25 ⇒ 2001 …

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The tutor investigates a problem involving composite numbers. For problem 4b, page 19, of his Elementary Number Theory (second edition), Dudley invites the reader to prove there are infinite n such that both 6n-1 and 6n+1 are composite. (Composite means …

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