What does $10^{a} \equiv 1 \pmod{p}$ mean? Especially when relating it to base 10 referring to $10^{a}$?
Modular equivalence for base ten
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0One consequence is that $1/p$ has a repeating decimal representation of period a divisor of $a$. – 2012-11-02