Find the number of digits in smallest repunit divisible by 19.
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Repunit is a string of 1 's and can be expressed as
9 1 0 N − 1
and N will be the number of digits of 1 .
By Fermat's Little Theorem,
1 0 1 8 ≡ 1 m o d 1 9
1 0 1 8 − 1 ≡ 0 m o d 1 9
Hence, the number of digits of the number is 1 8 .