How statement and proof provenance work
The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.
- Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
- AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
- AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.
These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.
Quadratic residues, roots, and the Legendre table modulo
Example
Modulo , the nonzero quadratic residues are , with root pairs
For representatives , the Legendre values are
Facts & Assumptions
Given: The odd prime modulus .
For an odd prime , exactly nonzero classes are quadratic residues, the same number are nonresidues, and every nonzero residue has exactly two square roots (An odd prime has nonzero quadratic residues and as many nonresidues).
The Legendre symbol is on a divisible numerator, on a quadratic residue, and on a quadratic nonresidue (The Legendre symbol, including its zero value).
Verification
Squaring modulo gives . Their negatives give the same squares, so the displayed pairs are roots of those five distinct classes; [L1] shows that this exhausts all nonzero residues and all roots.
The remaining nonzero classes are therefore nonresidues, while the zero class is in the separate divisible branch of [L2].
Assigning to the five residue classes, to the five nonresidue classes, and to the zero class by [L2] gives the displayed table.
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Used by
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Sources
- W. Stein, Elementary Number Theory, Example 4.2.4 (standard reference, not scraped)