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Section Day 20

This is an outline of the topics we covered in the twentieth day of class. The skeleton notes are in a handout, which can be printed out using the printer icon at the top right of its section of the page for filling in during class. Filled notes for each day will be posted after class to Canvas.

Handout Tuesday 7/28

Algebraist of the Day.

Reminders/Announcements.

Definition 203. Euclidean Domain.

A Euclidean domain (ED) is an integral domain \(D\) with a function \(d: D\setminus\{0\} \to \Z_{\gt 0}\) (the measure) such that
  1. \(d(a)\leq d(ab)\) for all \(a,b\in D\setminus\{0\}\)
  2. If \(a,b\in D\text{,}\) \(b\neq 0\text{,}\) then there exist \(q,r\in D\) such that
    \begin{equation*} a=bq+r \end{equation*}
    and either \(r=0\) or \(d(r)\lt d(b)\text{.}\)

Example 204. Familiar Euclidean Domains.

Proof.