Re: JSH: Heart of dispute, number properties

From: Arturo Magidin (magidin_at_math.berkeley.edu)
Date: 03/24/05 

Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 00:21:27 +0000 (UTC)

In article <4241F0A5.AC132E0E@ix.netcom.com>,
C. Bond <cbond@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>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?...

Sorry about that; I meant "any algebraic number which is not an
algebraic INTEGER, and such that no power of it is a rational."

Thanks for catching that! 

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