Paper 3, Section I, I
Part II, 2020
Let and be very large positive integers with a prime and . The Chair of the Committee is able to inscribe pairs of very large integers on discs. The Chair wishes to inscribe a collection of discs in such a way that any Committee member who acquires of the discs and knows the prime can deduce the integer , but owning discs will give no information whatsoever. What strategy should the Chair follow?
[You may use without proof standard properties of the determinant of the Vandermonde matrix.]