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Past exam of the probability, statistics and options I course of the University of Oxford 2011 C 1 b ii Solution by
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Suppose there were only finitely many prime numbers congruent to modulo , and list them as . The list is nonempty since it contains . Let . It is greater than one and divisible by neither nor . Every prime factor therefore has residue or modulo . Since , at least one prime factor must have residue . But for every listed prime, so is not on the list. This contradiction proves there are infinitely many primes congruent to modulo .
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