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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2022 iii Paper 136 4 c Solution by
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Put . Modulo two, has the two simple roots zero and one, so Hensel lemma lifts them to roots , with and . The 2-adic unit criterion makes a square, so splits into two linear factors. The polynomial is Eisenstein and remains irreducible. Thus has three irreducible factors, of degrees , as in factorization of X4 plus 9X2 minus 2 over the 2-adic numbers.
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