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What is an irreducible polynomial?

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What is an irreducible polynomial?

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Simply one that has no factors in the field under consideration. Note that the field matters – x^2 + 1 is irreducible over the real numbers, but has a perfectly good factorisation (x+i)(x-i) over the field of complex numbers.

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