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Past exam of the short options course of the University of Oxford 2023 1 b iii Solution by
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The primes both work, with the zero residue as a solution. For every other prime, multiplicativity of the Legendre symbol and quadratic reciprocity giveThe first factor is positive for ; the second is positive for . They must have the same sign. The Chinese remainder theorem therefore yields
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