• CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.orgOP
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    8 months ago

    TIL about prime-generating quadratic polynomials, as well. I feel like I’m destined to use one in code now. The logic behind eπ√163 looks like more than I can absorb today, haha.

    Because I find Wikipedia doesn’t explain it in the best way, a quadratic field like ℚ[√-n] is literally just the field of rationals with √-n and all the new numbers you can make with it added.