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The Law of Quadratic Reciprocity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 November 2016
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In connection with the article on Quadratic Residues in the December number of the Gazette, a neat graphical method, which I first put forward in 1913, may be of interest.
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Page 198 of note * Proc. Lon. Math. Soc., Series 2, Vol. 12, Part 5.
Page 199 of note * It is easily seen that if ; so that the point in question will have been inserted in Fig. 1 at the stage supposed.
Page 199 of note † This is so because, as we saw at the outset, the (p - l)th point would come at a distance q behind O.
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