Timeline for How to explain this property of totient?
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| Mar 31, 2020 at 20:34 | comment | added | Robert Israel | Agreed, it's not really random, but a random model can give useful heuristics, as with Cramér's random model for the primes. | |
| Mar 31, 2020 at 7:13 | comment | added | WhatsUp | Nice answer. Although the "matter of randomness" actually involves nothing random... | |
| Mar 31, 2020 at 6:45 | comment | added | user153451 | I have found some $k$ for which for some small $m$ it seems that there is no $p$ such that $\varphi(pm+k)=\varphi(pm+p+k)$ but both such $k$ and $m$ seem to be very rare. | |
| Mar 31, 2020 at 2:31 | history | answered | Robert Israel | CC BY-SA 4.0 |