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Baltic Way algebra

Problem

Compute the following product:
Solution
By applying Sophie-Germain identity we can obtain following equality: It is now easy to see that the product, that we want to compute, can be shortened:
Final answer
2/(8073^2 + 1)

Techniques

Polynomial operationsTelescoping series