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Generalization of Morley's Theorem.

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Taking n = p-1 in (8.4) gives

which implies (1.15) after summing over each , applying (8.1) and then using Fermat's Theorem and the Von Staudt--Clausen Theorem.
With a little more work we see that the left side of (1.15) is

where .

Taking and n=p-2 in (8.4), and then using a number of the well--known congruences quoted in section 8 as well as (8.1), we obtain

and . Substituting these equations into (9.2), and using the fact that for , we see that the left side of (1.15) is