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Hanumant and His Love — CodeBattle Problem
By Death_Scythe, history, 8 years ago, In English

Hi!

How to solve the following problem: https://www.hackerearth.com/problem/algorithm/hanumant-and-his-love/description/

The problem asks to solve the following summation:

where p is a prime and φ(m) is the Euler totient function.

Thanks!

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This can help you: φ(x) is multiplicative function so, φ(pj) = φ(p) * φ(j) = (p - 1) * φ(j)

I'm not sure about solution, but I think this will be used in solution.

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Use the following identity:

For a particular p it turns out the summation is of the form:

(p - 1) * F(n) + (p - 1) * F(⌊ n / p⌋) + (p - 1) * F(⌊ n / p2⌋) + .....

where

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    What does "d" refer to in F(n), and could you please explain the proof for function F(n)?

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    Can you please show how do you simplify the summation for particular p? Thanks!

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