This note presents a reasonable sufficient condition for a function to distribute over the greatest common divisor. The derived lemma is used to prove that the Mersenne function is such a function.
Multiples in the Fibonacci series illustrates the use of the property that
the Fibonacci function distributes over the greatest common divisor
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