Failure of unique factorization in the ring of integers generated by square root of minus five

ID: failure-of-unique-factorization-in-the-ring-of-integers-generated-by-square-root-of-minus-five

This integral domain embeds in but has the inequivalent factorizations . The multiplicative norm takes neither the value two nor three, proving that the four displayed factors are irreducible elements. Its only units are , so those two factorizations cannot be related by units and reordering.

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