Re: Puzzled (4^162 mod 100)

In article <e0prlv$56v$1@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Arturo Magidin <magidin@math.berkeley.edu> wrote:

   [.snip.]

>What makes the approach work for the specific case of 4 and 100 is
>that there the monoid has period (1,20),

As Paul Rubin shows, this should be (1,10), not (1,20).

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