Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-options-i-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2004/c/c1/a/i/solution

By the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, every integer greater than one has a prime factorization, and that factorization is unique up to reordering the factors. Equivalently, it has a unique finite prime-exponent representation , with nonnegative integer exponents. The unit integer has the empty product.

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