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A Gallery of Groups · Medium problem

D16D_{16} has order 3232, generated by a rotation rr of order 1616 and a reflection ss with srs−1=r−1srs^{-1}=r^{-1}. For how many rotations rkr^k (0≤k<160\le k<16) does ss actually commute with rkr^k (that is, srk=rkssr^k=r^ks)?