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Past exam of the number theory course of the University of Oxford 2007 A 1 i Solution by
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Scaling every root scales its elementary symmetric polynomials by the corresponding powers of . Therefore the monic polynomial isThis remains valid for , when all three roots are zero; deriving it by symmetric coefficients avoids dividing by .
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