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hardsympy/sympy · v1.6

nthroot_mod function misses one root of x = 0 mod p.

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Problem statement

When in the equation x**n = a mod p , when a % p == 0. Then x = 0 mod p is also a root of this equation. But right now nthroot_mod does not check for this condition. nthroot_mod(17*17, 5 , 17) has a root 0 mod 17. But it does not return it.

The environment starts at commit ba80d1e493f2 (sympy/sympy 1.6), dependencies installed and tests runnable from the first minute. You are graded by hidden tests taken from the fix that was actually merged upstream.