| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - If a x is the smallest power of a for which the congruence a x a. - -.1 (mod. p) is satisfied, then a is said to belong to the exponent x for modulus p, and x may be called the chief exponent (Haupt-exponent by Allan Cunningham) of the base a for the modulus p; so that (I) this exponent is the number of figures in the circulating period of the fraction in the scale of radix a, and (2) when x = p -
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