Re: JSH: Heart of dispute, number properties

From: C. Bond (cbond_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 03/23/05 

Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2005 22:40:30 GMT

Arturo Magidin wrote:

[snip]

> Now, there are many, many, many such rings. Bill Dubuque and others
> have given explicit examples. Pick any algebraic number which is not
> an algebraic number

...hmmm. Am I reading this correctly? Could you give an example of such a
number?...

> and such that no power of whom is rational, call
> it r, and take A[1/r]. That ring has that property. 

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