Symmetric and Asymmetric Primes
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Peter Fletcher; William Lindgren; Carl Pomerance
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Article
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1996
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In a well-known proof of the quadratic reciprocity law, one counts the lattice points inside the rectangle with sides parallel to the axes and opposite vertices at the origin and ( pร2, qร2), where p and q are distinct odd primes. In particular, the Legendre symbols ( pรq) and (qร p) depend, respect