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Prime numbers, diophantine equations, diophantine approximations, analytic or algebraic number theory, arithmetic geometry, Galois theory, transcendental number theory, continued fractions

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Why are polynomials easier to handle with than integers?

This may seems to be an elementary question, but I found no answers on MO nor google. I have always heard "polynomials are easier to handle with than integers". For example: When $n$ is quite large …
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