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Past exam of the Probability, statistics and options II course of the University of Oxford 2010 C C2 iv Solution by
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Each nonzero quadratic residue is attained twice as for . Therefore twice the sum of those residues is , which is zero modulo by (ii), since . As two is invertible modulo , the sum of the residues is zero. The sum of all nonzero residues is , so subtracting gives the same result for the nonresidues. Hence .
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