If has degree , then at every Archimedean embedding
Indeed, the factor of the defining product belonging to that Archimedean place shows ; using the exact local degree only improves this estimate. This proves the upper bound. Apply it to and use to obtain the lower bound. This is the Liouville height inequality.
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Take distinct . Their difference has the form
where has degree at most and polynomial length at most . By the height bound for a polynomial evaluation,
The algebraic number is nonzero and has degree at most , so the Liouville height inequality gives the separation
All elements of lie in an interval of length at most
Since , another application of the Liouville height inequality gives
The number of points in an interval is at most one plus its length divided by their minimum separation. Consequently
Thus the requested statement holds, for example, with the absolute constant .
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For , the nonzero algebraic number has degree at most
The basic height inequality gives
The Liouville height inequality therefore yields
Thus one may take the explicit constant
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