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    Density of solutions to quadratic congruences

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    A classical result in number theory is Dirichlet's theorem on the density of primes in an arithmetic progression. We prove a similar result for numbers with exactly k prime factors for k>1. Building upon a proof by E.M. Wright in 1954, we compute the natural density of such numbers where each prime satisfies a congruence condition. As an application, we obtain the density of squarefree n not greater than x with k prime factors such that a fixed quadratic equation has exactly 2^k solutions modulo n
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