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Prove ${^{b}a} \equiv {^{b+1}} a \pmod {10^{\lfloor{\log_{10} (^{b}a) }\rfloor + 1}} \Rightarrow a=5$ as $a$ and $b$ are two integers greater than $1$

$\DeclareMathOperator\len{len}$Let $a, b \in \mathbb{N} -\{ 0, 1 \}$ and define ${^{b}a}$ to be $a^a$ if $b = 2$ and $a^{\left(^{b-1}a \right)}$ if $b \geq 3$ (e.g., ${^{3}5} = 5^{\left( 5^5 \right)} =...
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Number of solutions of $am \equiv bn \pmod{q}$

Let $q$ be a (large) prime. Let $N$ be a positive integer of size${}\approx \sqrt{q}$. Let $\mathcal{M}$ be an arbitrary subset of $\{1, \dots, q\},$ such that $\mathcal{M}$ has cardinality $N$. ...
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Which consequences can be deduced from this peculiar property of tetration?

Recently (assuming radix-$10$), I showed that, for any $a \in \mathbb{N}_{0}$ that is not a multiple of $10$, there exists a unique value $V(a) \in \mathbb{N}_{0}$ which corresponds to the number of ...
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System of congruences with bound condition

Let $m$ be a positive integer divisible by $6$, and let $q$ be one of $8,9$, or a prime $\gt 3$. Question : Is there always an $x\in [1,m]$, coprime to $m$, such that $x\not\equiv\pm 1 \ \mod{q}$ ? ...
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Some conjectural congruences involving Domb numbers

The Domb numbers are given by $$D_n=\sum_{k=0}^n\binom{n}{k}^2\binom{2k}k\binom{2(n-k)}{n-k}\ \ \ (n=0,1,2,\ldots).$$ Such numbers have combinatorial interpretation, see, e.g., http://oeis.org/A002895....
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Two conjectural congruences for Franel numbers

Recall that the Franel numbers are given by $$f_n:=\sum_{k=0}^n \binom{n}{k}^3\ \ \ (n=0,1,\ldots).$$ Question. How to prove my following conjecture? Conjecture. For each odd prime $p$, we have $$\...
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Probability in $GL_2(\mathbb{Z}/p^{r}\mathbb{Z})$

My question may be not interesting or easy to answer ! but I am really not familiar with proba. Let $p$ be an odd prime number. and let $r\geq1$ an integer. choose an element $A\in\mathrm{GL}_2(\...