I am using EXCEL to investigate these questions. I will work with squares up to 1000 and with all moduli under 50. I will then see what happens with higher powers. If you know anything about calculating on a spread sheet you can easily set up a spread sheet to obtain the relevant data.
You get many of these pairs if the modulus is the sum of 2 squares (ie., 4 + 9 = 13; 4 + 25 = 29). However, a pair of squares adding to the modulus is much less if it ithe modulus is not the sum of 2 squares (ie., 12).
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we will be investigating them.
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