For a nonzero squarefree integer , set . The power basis is an integral basis, with discriminant . The polynomial is Eisenstein at every prime dividing ; for , shift by one to obtain an Eisenstein polynomial at two. The discriminant-index formula for an integral lattice restricts any power-basis index prime to . An Eisenstein prime cannot divide the index: the norm of has valuation for and , while is integral; multiplying a putative denominator- integral element successively by powers of forces each numerator coefficient divisible by .
It remains to exclude two. A putative integral element has relative norm to with coefficients
The quadratic field has ring of integers , so both coefficients are integers. The first congruence forces to have the same parity. If they are odd, the second requires , impossible. If they are even, the second forces to have the same parity and the first forces even, so both are even. Thus no nontrivial denominator-two element exists, proving index one.

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