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Consider 
 proper equivalence classes of forms with discriminant 
 equal to the field discriminant, then they can be
subdivided equally into 
 genera of 
 forms which form a subgroup of the proper equivalence class group
under composition (Cohn 1980, p. 224), where 
 is the number of distinct prime divisors of 
.  This theorem was proved by
Gauß 
 in 1801.
References
Arno, S.; Robinson, M. L.; and Wheeler, F. S.  ``Imaginary Quadratic Fields with Small Odd Class Number.''
  http://www.math.uiuc.edu/Algebraic-Number-Theory/0009/.
 
Cohn, H.  Advanced Number Theory.  New York: Dover, 1980.
 
Gauss, C. F.  Disquisitiones Arithmeticae.  New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1966.