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number theory senior
Problem
There are finitely many primes for which the congruence has no solutions . Determine the sum of all such .
Solution
A solution exists if and only if is invertible modulo . In other words, . Since is a power of , is invertible modulo if and only if is an odd integer. All primes except for are odd, so the number we are looking for is .
Final answer
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