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Using the decomposition $641 = 5^4 + 2^4$ to factor $F_5$
The question in the title arises from a problem in Stewart's "Galois Theory, Third Edition" (and possibly elsewhere) which has been bugging me for a few days since reading it:
Problem 19.5 (p. 224) ...