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Schwartz-Zippel Lemma

Lemma: Let \(F\) be any field, and let g: \(F^m → F\) be a nonzero \(m\)-variate polynomial of total degree (a.k.a the number of possible roots) at most \(d\). Then on any finite set \(S \subseteq F\) :

\[ \begin{aligned} Pr_{x←S^m} [g(x) = 0] ≤ d/|S|. \end{aligned} \]

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