Solution

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Every Euclidean domain is a principal ideal domain: in a nonzero ideal choose an element of least positive Euclidean value and divide every other element by it; minimality forces every remainder to vanish. Every principal ideal domain is a unique factorization domain: the ascending-chain condition supplies factorizations into irreducibles, and Euclid lemma follows because every irreducible generates a prime ideal. Therefore

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