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Translated from Matematicheskie Zametki, Vol. 41, No. 3, pp. 289–295, March, 1987.
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Stepanov, S.A. The number of irreducible polynomials of a given form over a finite field. Mathematical Notes of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR 41, 165–169 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01158241
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