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Algebra Difficulty 6.2 National olympiad Prove it

9. Show that the product cipher obtained by enciphering first using a Hill cipher with blocks of size mm and then using a Hill cipher with blocks of size nn is again a Hill cipher using blocks of size [m,n][m, n].

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