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Past exam of the Probability, statistics and options II course of the University of Oxford 2009 A A2 iii Solution by
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Take , the intended positive-exponent range. If , then fixes both and its field generator, so it fixes every element of . Every element would then be a root of . But that polynomial has degree , impossible for a nonzero polynomial over a field. Thus . The source writes only ; zero must be excluded, since .
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