For , the fundamental discriminant is and the Minkowski bound for ideal classes is
Thus every ideal class contains an integral ideal of norm at most eight.
The ring of integers of a quadratic field is for , whose minimal polynomial is . Its discriminant is a quadratic nonresidue modulo each of and ; directly modulo two, has no root. Hence these primes are inert by the splitting of rational primes in a quadratic field. The only prime ideal over one of them with norm at most eight is , which has norm four and is principal. Unique prime ideal factorization now makes every ideal of norm at most eight principal. The Minkowski bound therefore proves
This is the Ideal class group of Q of square root of minus one hundred sixty-three.