Solution

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Take and, for the next clause, its subring . Division with remainder makes a Euclidean domain, with the degree as Euclidean size for nonzero polynomials. For completeness, a nonzero ideal of contains a polynomial of least degree; division of any member by leaves a smaller-degree remainder in the ideal, so that remainder must vanish. The ideal is therefore ; the zero ideal is already principal. Thus is a principal ideal domain.

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