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A reduced residue system modulo n is a set of ${\displaystyle \phi }$(n) integers such that each integer is relatively prime to n and no two are congruent modulo n. Here ${\displaystyle \phi }$ denotes Euler's totient function.

A reduced residue system modulo n is a residue number system modulo n with all numbers not relatively prime to n removed. For example, the residue number system modulo 12 is ${\displaystyle \{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11\}}$. 1, 5, 7 and 11 are the only residues modulo 12 which are relatively prime to 12, and so the reduced residue system modulo 12 is ${\displaystyle \{1,5,7,11\}}$. In this case, ${\displaystyle \phi (12)=4}$, as Euler's totient function gives the length of the reduced residue system.

Facts

• If ${\displaystyle \{r_{1},r_{2},\dots ,r_{\varphi (n)}\}}$ is a reduced residue system with n > 2, then ${\displaystyle \sum r_{i}\equiv 0{\pmod {n}}}$.

See also

• Residue number system

External links

• Reduced residue system at MathWorld

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