Jul 31, 2010 · 9 What is a primitive polynomial? I was looking into some random number generation algorithms and 'primitive polynomial' came up a sufficient number of times that I …

May 16, 2023 · How would you find a primitive root of a prime number such as 761? How do you pick the primitive roots to test? Randomly? Thanks

Jun 26, 2024 · 1 Based on the comments, a primitive central idempotent is a central idempotent that cannot be written as a sum of two central orthogonal idempotents. If we define that a …

Sep 29, 2023 · Proving Dirichlet character is primitive Ask Question Asked 2 years, 4 months ago Modified 2 years, 4 months ago

Jun 18, 2015 · Moreover the other primitive elements are obtained as powers of $2$ that are not the ones relevant to checking that $2$ is primitive, so you'd have to separately compute those …

Sep 25, 2025 · Def 1: A primitive $n$ -th root of unity is an $n$ -th root of 1 that is not an $m$ -th root of 1 for any proper divisor $m$ of $n$. This definition seems different from what I have …

The only information that i can find on the wikipedia page is [Ackermann's function] grows faster than any primitive recursive function and is therefore not primitive recursive Which isn't a good …

Another method to show the "only if " direction is to use the fact that the trace of $\zeta_n$ is equal to zero if n is not square free, while by definition, the trace of $\zeta_n$ in this case is …

Mar 23, 2019 · Could you please help me solve the following problem? 2 is a primitive root mod 19. Using this information, find all solutions to x^12 ≡ 7 (mod 19) and x^12 ≡ 6 (mod 19) I think …

May 12, 2018 · The difference lies in the fact that a primitive (or atomic) proposition's truth does not "depend" on that of any simpler proposition, that is, it can't be "broken down" to simpler …