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The Discriminant: A Classy Number

Bobby Grizzard

We will investigate the 200-year-old problem of classifying integral binary quadratic forms with a given discriminant, first tackled by C. F. Gauss. This is a classical approach to the class number problem. No knowledge of number theory is necessary.

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