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The fundamental theorem of arithmetic doesn't say anything about units though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithmetic https://en.wikip
by FartyMcFarter 6y ago
The fundamental theorem of arithmetic doesn't say anything about units though:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithmetic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamental_theorem_of_arithme...
> every integer greater than 1 either is a prime number itself or can be represented as the product of prime numbers and that, moreover, this representation is unique, up to (except for) the order of the factors.
- ogogmad 6y agoLook up the definition of a Unique Factorisation Domain and a prime element of a ring. The theorem that the integers form a UFD necessarily takes into account negative primes. [Edit] Here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_factorization_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_factorization_domain