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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2005 iii Paper 32 1 ii Solution by
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Over , both give , and both give . There are four affine rational points, together with the point at infinity. Over , each gives , while precisely solve . ThusBoth reductions are nonsingular by the discriminant calculation, so these are the point counts of the reduced elliptic curves, with their group laws.
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