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Number theory Difficulty 5.9 AIME, harder Prove it

9. Show that although there are no primitive roots modulo 2k2^{k} where kk is an integer, k3k \geqslant 3, every odd integer is congruent to exactly one of the integers (1)α5β(-1)^{\alpha} 5^{\beta}, where α=0\alpha=0 or 1 and β\beta is an integer satisfying 0β2k210 \leqslant \beta \leqslant 2^{k-2}-1.

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