Given the binary quadratic form
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with polynomial discriminant , let
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(3)
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Then
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where
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(6)
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(7)
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so
(8)
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Surprisingly, this is the same discriminant as before, but multiplied by the factor . The quantity is called the quadratic invariant modulus.