For a prime ,
Every nonzero residue other than and pairs with a distinct multiplicative inverse, leaving only in the product.
For a prime number and nonnegative integers , Wilson theorem gives by replacing the last factors of with . For odd , have the same parity; for , both signs have the same residue class. Thus , including the endpoint cases .

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