On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 6:12 AM, kcrisman <kcris...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Somewhat relevant, though not necessarily something we want to > implement in Sage, is Conway's (and others') suggestion that -1 should > be prime. See among others this thread at the mathforum, which at > times would put sage-flame to shame :) though apparently all in good > fun (?) and includes this neat restatement: "The multiplicative group > of the non-zero rationals is the direct product of the cyclic > subgroups generated by "my" primes, namely -1,2,3,5,... ." > > - kcrisman
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