pock.1: Make a less fatuous observation.
authorMark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Sat, 21 Sep 2019 10:40:14 +0000 (11:40 +0100)
committerMark Wooding <mdw@distorted.org.uk>
Sat, 21 Sep 2019 10:46:09 +0000 (11:46 +0100)
Of course a has order dividing p - 1 in Z/pZ.  This is Lagrange's
theorem.

It's valuable to observe that a has order dividing n - 1 because this
makes the next step, where we deduce the order of t = a^{(n-1)/q}, work.

pock.1

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@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ the order of
 in
 .RB ( Z /\fIp Z )\*(ss\(**\*(se
 divides
-.I p
+.I n
 \-
 1.
 Consider some prime