Euler indicatrix

### 7.1.24 Euler indicatrix

The Euler phi function (also called the Euler totient function) finds the number of positive integers less than a given integer and relatively prime. The euler command computes the Euler phi function.

- euler takes n, a non-negative integer.
- euler(n) returns the number of integers larger than 1, less than n and relatively prime to n.

#### Example

euler(21)

12 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

In other words the set of integers less than 21 and coprime with 21, {1,2,4,5,8,10,11,13,16,17,19,20}, has 12 elements.

Theorem 2 (Fermat) If p is a prime number, then for any integer a, ap−1≡ 1 (mod p ).

Euler introduced his phi function to generalize Theorem 2.

Theorem 3 (Euler) If a and n are relatively prime, then aeuler(n)≡ 1 (mod n ).

#### Example

powmod(5,12,21)

1 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |

(See Section 11.8.10.)