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| Jun 14, 2010 at 17:01 | history | edited | Akhil Mathew | CC BY-SA 2.5 |
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| Jun 14, 2010 at 15:59 | comment | added | KConrad | Akhil, I think it's more natural to refer to the order of a root of unity rather than its degree (that is more intrinsic to the root of unity) and also you forgot about 0 being in the residue field: you meant to count the cardinality of the nonzero elements in the residue field, e.g., Q_p has residue field of size p and the number of roots of unity (with order prime to p) is p-1 rather than p. | |
| Jun 14, 2010 at 15:24 | history | answered | Akhil Mathew | CC BY-SA 2.5 |