Timeline for What goes wrong in a ring that does not have unique factorization?
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| Feb 27, 2016 at 20:01 | comment | added | KConrad | I think the last paragraph here should have gone first: it is a very concrete illustration of something weird that can happen. In a Dedekind domain the property of being able to write every ratio of nonzero elements in its fraction field in "lowest terms" is in fact equivalent to it being a UFD. | |
| Jun 1, 2010 at 5:29 | history | edited | Pete L. Clark | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jun 1, 2010 at 5:13 | history | answered | Pete L. Clark | CC BY-SA 2.5 |