Friday, 16 February 2018

discrete mathematics - For odd $n$, there is an $m$ such that $n mid 2^m-1$

I am really stuck with this question:




Suppose $n$ is an odd positive integer. Prove that there exists a positive integer $m$ such that (2^m − 1)\n .
(Here, “divides” means that when 2^m − 1 is divided by n.)


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