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Posted by Daniel Goroff on October 15, 1999 at 01:08:35:

We said that the rationals are the smallest field containing a copy of the positive integers. Then what about Z_7, the integers modulo 7? Isn't it a smaller field?

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>>We said that the rationals are the smallest field containing a copy of the positive integers.  Then what about Z_7, the integers modulo 7?  Isn't it a smaller field?

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