6.5.25  Jacobi symbol: jacobi_symbol

The Jacobi symbol is a generalization of the Legendre symbol (a/n) for when n isn’t prime. Let

be the prime factorization of n. The Jacobi symbol of a is defined by:

Where the left hand side is the Jacobi symbol and the right hand side contains Legendre symbols. The jacobi_symbol command computes the Jacobi symbol.

• jacobi_symbol takes two arguments:
  a and n, integers.
• jacobi_symbol(a,n) returns the Jacobi symbol (a/n).

Examples.

• Input:
  jacobi_symbol(25,12)
  Output:

  1

• Input:
  jacobi_symbol(35,12)
  Output:

  −1

• Input:
  jacobi_symbol(33,12)
  Output:

  0