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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2021 ii Paper 4 20G a Solution by
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and , so every class has an ideal of norm at most . Factoring the primes and checking principal norms shows that the ramified prime ideals represent one nontrivial class of order two; hence . The continued fraction of gives the least unit greater than one as , of norm .
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