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No it's not true. An equivalent question is whether the product of $(1-1/p)$, where $p$ ranges over all the primes for which 2 has odd order mod $p$, is greater than or equal to $1/2$. However an explicit calculation shows that if you take the product over all primes $p$ less than 57 million with this property then the product is just less than $1/2$, so there will be a counterexample; however $k$ will be astronomical (the lowest common multiple of these millions of orders, many of which will be a million or more). Computing the product instead of the lowest common multiple gives some value of $k$ which has 6482632 digits (the product becomes less than $1/2$ when $p=55685687$), but the smallest counterexample will be smaller than that because the LCM will save you something (although it will still be astronomical).

No it's not true. An equivalent question is whether the product of $(1-1/p)$, where $p$ ranges over all the primes for which 2 has odd order mod $p$, is greater than or equal to $1/2$. However an explicit calculation shows that if you take the product over all primes $p$ less than 57 million with this property then the product is just less than $1/2$, so there will be a counterexample; however $k$ will be astronomical (the lowest common multiple of these millions of orders, many of which will be a million or more).

No it's not true. An equivalent question is whether the product of $(1-1/p)$, where $p$ ranges over all the primes for which 2 has odd order mod $p$, is greater than or equal to $1/2$. However an explicit calculation shows that if you take the product over all primes $p$ less than 57 million with this property then the product is just less than $1/2$, so there will be a counterexample; however $k$ will be astronomical (the lowest common multiple of these millions of orders, many of which will be a million or more). Computing the product instead of the lowest common multiple gives some value of $k$ which has 6482632 digits (the product becomes less than $1/2$ when $p=55685687$), but the smallest counterexample will be smaller than that because the LCM will save you something (although it will still be astronomical).

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Kevin Buzzard
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No it's not true. An equivalent question is whether the product of $(1-1/p)$, where $p$ ranges over all the primes for which 2 has odd order mod $p$, is greater than or equal to $1/2$. However an explicit calculation shows that if you take the product over all primes $p$ less than 57 million with this property then the product is just less than $1/2$, so there will be a counterexample; however $k$ will be astronomical (the lowest common multiple of these millions of orders, many of which will be a million or more).