Chapter 4: 9 (page 100)
If and is relatively prime to , what can be said about ?
Short Answer
is a non-zero constant polynomial.
Chapter 4: 9 (page 100)
If and is relatively prime to , what can be said about ?
is a non-zero constant polynomial.
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Get started for free(a) By counting products of the form (x+a) (x+b) show that there are exactly monic polynomials of degree 2 that are not irreducible in .
(b) Show that there are exactly monic irreducible polynomials of
degree 2 in .
Let be the set of all real numbers of the form
, with and .
Express each of the gcd’s in Exercise 5 as a linear combination of the two polynomials.
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