Counting monic irreducible polynomials in for which order of is odd
Hasse showed the existence and computed the Dirichlet density of the set of primes for which the order of is odd; it is . Here we mimic successfully Hasse’s method to compute the density of monic irreducibles in for which the order of is odd. But on the way, we are also led to a new and elementary proof of these densities. More observations are made, and averages are considered, in particular, an average of the ’s as varies through all rational primes.