Exercise · ZW-EULER-S-TOTIENT-FUNCTION-009 · ★★★ Advanced

Which of these numbers does NOT satisfy \(\varphi(n)=12\)?

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  • A. 24

Explanation

We have \(\varphi(13)=12\), \(\varphi(21)=\varphi(3)\varphi(7)=12\) and \(\varphi(26)=\varphi(2)\varphi(13)=12\), while \(\varphi(24)=8\).

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Euler's totient function \(\varphi\) assigns to each positive integer \(n\) the number of integers between 1 and \(n\) that are coprime to \(n\).

\[\varphi(n)=n\prod_{p\mid n}\left(1-\frac{1}{p}\right)\]

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