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The ring of integers is $\mathbb{Z}[\omega ]$, where ${\omega }^2+\omega +1=0$, and its class number is one by the Minkowski bound for ideal classes. Modulo seven it is ${\mathbb{F}}_7\times {\mathbb{F}}_7$. The six roots of unity reduce to the kernel of the product map on the two residue unit groups, so the ray class group is ${\mathbb{F}}_7^{\times }$, of order six. The relative Artin symbol on $K({\zeta }_7)$ is exponentiation by the norm of a fractional ideal modulo seven. It kills the principal ray subgroup, and $[K({\zeta }_7):K]=6$, proving that this is the ray class field.

Seth Viren Neel authored notes on binary quadratic forms and the ideal class group. The notes develop equivalence, reduction and genus theory, showing how bounded coefficients permit finite enumeration of reduced positive definite forms. This gives a concrete computational view of class numbers while retaining the distinction between a form and its equivalence class.^[ref]