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State/Computing the totient of a prime power

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Proposition: (Computing the totient of a prime power) Suppose that $p$ is a prime number, and $n$ is a positive integer. Then the totient of $p^n$ can be computed with the following formula: $$\phi(p^n) = p^n - p^{n-1}.$$ In particular, $\phi(p) = p-1$.

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