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From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz <spamt...@library.lspace.org.invalid>
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In <k7rler$2i...@Lazarus.situ.com>, on 11/12/2012
   at 03:16 PM, s...@situ.com (sidd) said:

>it would then not be arithmetic anymore. I think that given the 
>group and ring assumptions under addition and multiplication you 
>always end up with the unique factorization

You need more than that. The Gaussian integers form a ring.

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