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We already met with the concept of “congruence” in Section 3.3. In this section we are going to explore it more systematically.
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Grosswald, E. (1984). Congruences. In: Topics from the Theory of Numbers. Modern Birkhäuser Classics. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4838-1_4
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