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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2009 iii Paper 26 1 c Solution by
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Use in the family from part (b). For order four, take , givingIts discriminant is , and is a nonzero point equal to its own inverse. Thus and .
For order six, take :Its discriminant is . Here and ; negation is , so is nonzero 2-torsion. Neither nor is , excluding orders two and three, while . All coefficients and points are rational, and the nonzero discriminants certify genuine elliptic curves.
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