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The present paper is concerned with the order o(αp) of a root αp of the polynomial xp-x-1 over a prime field Fp. We propose a conjecture that o(αp)=mp:=(pp-1)/(p-1) for any prime p. Then we introduce two methods to verify the conjecture in certain cases.