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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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Date: 2003-08-04 10:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] blenrock.livejournal.com
The division is ridiculous, but yeah, the bionomial coefs thing is pretty valid. Silly abuse of notation...

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