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    "# [Totient Permutation](https://projecteuler.net/problem=70)\n",
    "\n",
    "SageMath's implementation of $\\phi(n)$ is fast enough that you could brute force this if you wanted, but if we're clever, we can solve more quickly.\n",
    "\n",
    "We'll write a simple function for determining if two numbers are digit permutations of each other."
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    "def is_permutation_pair(a, b):\n",
    "    s, t = str(a), str(b)\n",
    "    return sorted(s) == sorted(t)"
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    "As in [problem 69](https://projecteuler.net/problem=69),\n",
    "$$\\phi(n) = n\\prod_{p | n} \\left(1 - \\frac{1}{p}\\right)$$\n",
    "\n",
    "We can calculate the totients of the numbers up to $10^7$ using a very similar approach to the [sieve of Eratosthenes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes) for generating prime numbers (see [problem 10](https://projecteuler.net/problem=10)). Iterating over values of $n$, if `totients[n] == n - 1`, then $n$ is prime, and we'll update all its multiples using the above formula."
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    "def totient_range(limit):\n",
    "    totients = [n - 1 for n in range(0, limit)]\n",
    "    totients[0] = 0\n",
    "    totients[1] = 1\n",
    "    \n",
    "    for n in range(0, limit):\n",
    "        yield totients[n]\n",
    "        if n == 0 or n == 1 or totients[n] != n - 1:\n",
    "            continue\n",
    "\n",
    "        for k in range(2 * n, limit, n):\n",
    "            totients[k] -= totients[k] // n"
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    "$n-1$ can't be a permutation of $n$, so our solution won't be prime. If $n$ is composite, then we'll check if $n/\\phi(n)$ is small and if $\\phi(n)$ is a permutation of $n$, keeping track of the best answer so far."
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    "limit = 10^7\n",
    "\n",
    "answer = None\n",
    "ratio = float('inf')\n",
    "\n",
    "for (n, totient) in enumerate(totient_range(limit)):\n",
    "    if n == 0 or n == 1 or totient == n - 1:\n",
    "        continue\n",
    "        \n",
    "    r = n / totient\n",
    "    if r < ratio and is_permutation_pair(n, totient):\n",
    "        ratio = r\n",
    "        answer = n"
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    "Note: lots of people in the problem thread make the assumption that the answer must be a [semiprime](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiprime). However, Steendor points out that for certain upper bounds, this assumption does not hold. For instance, $2817 = 3^2 \\times 313$ and $\\phi(2817) = 1872$, and 2817/1872 is the lowest ratio until 2991. 2817 may be an exception rather than the norm (all the other numbers in A102018 up to $10^8$ are semiprimes); nevertheless, this solution avoids making the assumption.\n",
    "\n",
    "## Relevant sequences\n",
    "* All numbers $n$ such that $\\phi(n)$ is a digit permutation: [A115921](https://oeis.org/A115921)\n",
    "* Subsequence of A115921 such that $n/\\phi(n)$ is a record low: [A102018](https://oeis.org/A102018)\n",
    "\n",
    "#### Copyright (C) 2025 filifa\n",
    "\n",
    "This work is licensed under the [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) and the [BSD Zero Clause license](https://spdx.org/licenses/0BSD.html)."
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