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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2013 iii Paper 23 5 d ii Solution by
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Write the progression integers as . Their values lie in an interval of length at most . For every prime , primality forbids the unique residue ; primes dividing impose no restriction because .
Choose . The selected primes exceed , hence exceed these sieving primes. The uniform coprime-denominator estimate just proved yieldsThe assumption implies . ThereforeEndpoint and bounded small-parameter corrections are again absorbed. The proof supplies the more informative short-interval progression bound before using the given size hypothesis.
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