Suppose were a product of irreducible elements of . Since degree of a polynomial is additive under products, exactly one factor has positive degree and all the others are constant. By the preceding classification, the positive-degree factor has constant term , while every constant irreducible is for a prime . Their product therefore has a nonzero constant term, contradicting .
Thus is not a product of irreducibles, so this integral domain is not an atomic domain and in particular is not a unique factorization domain.

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