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Paper 2, Section I, I

Number Theory | Part II, 2011

(i) Find a primitive root modulo 17.17 .17.

(ii) Let ppp be a prime of the form 2m+12^{m}+12m+1 for some integer m⩾1m \geqslant 1m⩾1. Prove that every quadratic non-residue modulo ppp is a primitive root modulo ppp.

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