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Problem 214: Totient Chains

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Let $φ$ be Euler's totient function, i.e. for a natural number $n$, $φ(n)$ is the number of $k$, $1 ≤ k ≤ n$, for which $gcd(k,n) = 1$.

By iterating $φ$, each positive integer generates a decreasing chain of numbers ending in 1. E.g. if we start with 5 the sequence 5,4,2,1 is generated. Here is a listing of all chains with length 4:

$$\begin{align} 5,4,2,1 & \\ 7,6,2,1 & \\ 8,4,2,1 & \\ 9,6,2,1 & \\ 10,4,2,1 & \\ 12,4,2,1 & \\ 14,6,2,1 & \\ 18,6,2,1 & \end{align}$$

Only two of these chains start with a prime, their sum is 12.

What is the sum of all primes less than $40\,000\,000$ which generate a chain of length 25?

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totientChains() should return 1677366278943.

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assert.strictEqual(totientChains(), 1677366278943);

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function totientChains() {

  return true;
}

totientChains();

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// solution required