How many integers between 1 and 2000 inclusive share no common factors with 2001?
Solution
Two integers are said to be relatively prime if they share no common factors, that is if there is no integer greater than 1 that divides evenly into both of them. Note that 1 is relatively prime to all integers. Let be the number of integers less than n that are relatively prime to n for and relatively prime, we have 29)=(3-1)(23-1)(29-1)=1232$.
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