It *is* easy geometrically, actually

[sniffnoy]

Why must the notation for the Legendre symbols be so confusing? If I don't try to read it as division, I try to read it as a binomial coefficient!

And how was anyone supposed to tell it was pronounced "a on p"?

-Sniffnoy, confused
...although, of course, "It's good to be confused.".

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"I was sad that I had no hat, until I saw a man with no head."
-John Cooper

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[blenrock.livejournal.com]

The division is ridiculous, but yeah, the bionomial coefs thing is pretty valid. Silly abuse of notation...