Condition (/;)
 Usage
Notes
 Further Examples
To illustrate Condition we define RealRoots which, if the discriminant disc is nonnegative, returns the roots of a quadratic polynomial with real coefficients a, b, c. However, if disc is negative the calculation of the roots is blocked.
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RealRoots returns unevaluated in this case.
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Here RealRoots returns evaluated.
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Here Condition is used to define a function depending on the sign of the argument.
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Here Condition is used to restrict the argument of randomRelativelyPrime to be a prime greater than  . Given a prime p, randomRelativelyPrime picks a random number between  and p-1 that is relatively prime to p-1.
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