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In this chapter we will prove the unsurprising but very important fact that factorization into primes is unique in a Euclidean domain. We start with a few definitions.
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McEliece, R.J. (1987). Unique Factorization in Euclidean Domains. In: Finite Fields for Computer Scientists and Engineers. The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 23. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1983-2_3
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