For a prime number , the ideal in the polynomial ring is proper: the constant coefficient of every member is divisible by . If , then divides the nonzero constant , so the additivity of polynomial degree over an integral domain makes constant. Since also divides , it must divide its leading coefficient ; thus . This would make the ideal the whole ring, a contradiction. Therefore is not a principal ideal domain, and hence not a Euclidean domain.
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