Let E be a nonsingular elliptic curve over the rational numbers, and let τn=pn+1−#E(Fpn)
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. A result in the current literature claims that the normalized traces of Frobenius
αn=(τn+τn)/2pn/2
are equidistributed on the interval
[−1,1]
as
n→∞
. This short note has two goals: 1. Proposes a correction to this result on the distribution of the traces of Frobenius. 2. Provides a simple elementary proof of this result. More precisely, it is shown that the sequence