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Exercise 3.5.15* (Fundamental discriminants)
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Suppose that or and that is not a perfect square. Then is called a fundamental discriminant (or reduced discriminant) if all binary quadratic forms of discriminant are primitive. Show that if then is a fundamental discriminant if and only if is square-free. Show that if then is a fundamental discriminant if and only if is square-free and or .