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Probabilistic methods prove existence results in a nonconstructive fashion, by showing the chance of randomly selecting a solution is greater than zero.

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On an exercise in The Probabilistic Method : random dilate of a set in a finite field

This is related to Problem $4.6$ in ``The Probabilistic Method'' by Alon and Spencer, where one essentially has to prove the following: Let $p$ be a prime, and $A$ be any subset of $\mathbb{F}_p$. T …
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