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The sequence

is known to be eventually periodic, which is to say that there is a smallest positive

such that

for all

. Naturally we call

the period, and the minimal value of

, the periodicity onset. L. Euler proved that the period must divide the totient of the modulus

In case of coprime

and

, the onset

is zero.

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