Let be a subset of defined as follows:
is the lowest natural number with .
For each , let denote . What is sum of all possible values of ?
Notations:
denotes the set of natural numbers .
denotes the greatest common divisor function.
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g c d ( b + 1 , 2 b + 1 ) = g c d ( b , b + 1 ) = 1 as they are consecutive numbers.
So a=1 and b is the smallest natural number i.e 1.
So answer is 2.