 Place of a number field (source code)

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= Place of a number field
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A place of a <number field> $K$ is an equivalence class of <absolute values on a field>. Its Archimedean places come from real embeddings and conjugate pairs of complex embeddings. Its non-Archimedean places correspond to nonzero prime ideals of the <ring of integers of a number field>.

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