On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 01:40:47PM +0530, Surinder Kaur wrote: > How can one check whether an element in a finite field with p^m elements is > a quadratic residue or not?
Just test whether a^((p^m-1)/2) = 1 Cheers, Bill. _______________________________________________ Forum mailing list Forum@mail.gap-system.org http://mail.gap-system.org/mailman/listinfo/forum