HMMT 2019 T9
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Let be a prime number. is defined as the set of all polynomials in with coefficients in (the integers modulo with usual addition and subtraction), so that two polynomials are equal if and only if the coefficients of are equal in for each nonnegative integer . For example, in because the corresponding coefficients are equal modulo 5 . Let . The pair is called compositional if
in . Find, with proof, the number of compositional pairs (in terms of ).
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