Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-options-ii-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2010/c/c2/v/solution

Part (ii), with exponent , shows that a prime fails to divide the sum precisely when divides . The positive divisors are . Adding one gives , of which the primes are
For these primes the sum is modulo ; for every other prime it is zero.

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