Let be the Legendre symbol. Compute (by hand)
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First, we need to know the definition of the Legendre symbol. The Legendre symbol is defined as: $\left(\frac{a}{p}\right) = \begin{cases} 0 & \text{if } p \mid a \\ 1 & \text{if } a \text{ is a quadratic residue modulo } p \\ -1 & \text{if } a \text{ is a Show more…
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