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Does this work? I was looking and don't we need the group to be cyclic for that to work?
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-Allen Jarboe

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The multiplicative set of F of non-zero elements forms a group under multiplication. Since it has n-1 elements it means x^(n-1) = 1 (property of groups

-Sarah Liszka


Does this work? I was looking and don't we need the group to be cyclic for that to work?

-Allen Jarboe

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