Problem to Brilliant ! 6

What is the value of n n for which Euler's Totient Function φ ( n ) \varphi (n) is maximum, for n 105000 n \leq 105000


Details and assumptions :-

\bullet φ ( x ) \varphi(x) gives the number of positive integers less than x x which are coprime to x x .


The answer is 104999.

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Aditya Raut
Dec 24, 2014

It's quite obvious that the answer will be the largest prime number less than 105000 105000 , because every larger number than the prime and 105000 \leq 105000 will have more numbers which aren't coprime.

This is proved using the fact that for primes p i p_i , φ ( p ) = p 1 \varphi (p) = p-1 and if any number x p 1 a 1 × p 2 a 2 × . . . p n a n x - p_1 ^{a_1} \times p_2^{a_2} \times ... p_n^{a_n} , then φ ( x ) = ( p i a i p ) \varphi(x) = \prod (p_i ^{a_i} -p )


The largest prime number 105000 \leq 105000 is 104999 \boxed{104999} .

That ,according to me,is incorrect because ϕ ( p ) = p 1 \phi(p)=p-1 for all prime numbers p . p. here is the link

Adarsh Kumar - 6 years, 5 months ago

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Thank you very much for notifying, the problem has been edited.

Aditya Raut - 6 years, 5 months ago

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You are most welcome.

Adarsh Kumar - 6 years, 5 months ago

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