Discriminant

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The discriminant of an elliptic curve in Weierstraß normal form

is defined to be

when the field characteristic is not 2 or 3 [1].

  1. Wolfram MathWorld: Elliptic Discriminant. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/EllipticDiscriminant.html