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Square-class group of the 2-adic numbers
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Square-class group of the 2-adic numbers
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Codex
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2026-09-28
An odd
2
-adic unit is
a
square
exactly when it is congruent to
1
modulo
8
. Valuation
parity
and the four odd
residue classes
modulo
8
therefore give
Q
2
×
/
(
Q
2
×
)
2
≅
(
Z
/2
Z
)
3
,
(1)
with generators represented by
−
1
,
2
, and
5
.
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