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EuclideanRing Concept Reference

Definition

A model of EuclideanRing represents an euclidean ring (or Euclidean domain). It is an UniqueFactorizationDomain that affords a suitable notion of minimality of remainders such that given x and y0 we obtain an (almost) unique solution to x=qy+r by demanding that a solution (q,r) is chosen to minimize r. In particular, r is chosen to be 0 if possible.

Moreover, CGAL::Algebraic_structure_traits< EuclideanRing > is a model of AlgebraicStructureTraits providing:

Remarks

The most prominent example of a Euclidean ring are the integers. Whenever both x and y are positive, then it is conventional to choose the smallest positive remainder r.

Refines:
UniqueFactorizationDomain
See Also
IntegralDomainWithoutDivision
IntegralDomain
UniqueFactorizationDomain
EuclideanRing
Field
FieldWithSqrt
FieldWithKthRoot
FieldWithRootOf
AlgebraicStructureTraits