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Project Euler 72: How many elements in a set of reduced proper fractions
Project Euler 72 Problem Description
Project Euler 72: Consider the fraction, n/d, where n and d are positive integers. If n≤d and GCD(n,d)=1, it is called a reduced proper fraction.
If we list the set of reduced proper fractions for d ≤ 8 in ascending order of size, we get:
1/8, 1/7, 1/6, 1/5, 1/4, 2/7, 1/3, 3/8, 2/5, 3/7, 1/2, 4/7, 3/5, 5/8, 2/3, 5/7, 3/4, 4/5, 5/6, 6/7, 7/8
It can be seen that there are 21 elements in this set.
How many elements would be contained in the set of reduced proper fractions for d ≤ 1,000,000?
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Posted by deff | July 25, 2016, 6:53 AMThanks for this post. I was stuck on this problem – using brute force, calculating totients for each number up to 1MM. It took forever!
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