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Can the article not use 'a' for the quadratic residue as it is
1) Not consistent with the other 2 Modular Square Root algorithms.
2) A poor linguistic choice as it conflicts with the common determiner 'a'.
I propose 'n' but the articles uses n for index in the derivations.