CGAL 4.6.2 - Algebraic Foundations
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A model of UniqueFactorizationDomain
is an IntegralDomain
with the additional property that the ring it represents is a unique factorization domain (a.k.a. UFD or factorial ring), meaning that every non-zero non-unit element has a factorization into irreducible elements that is unique up to order and up to multiplication by invertible elements (units). (An irreducible element is a non-unit ring element that cannot be factored further into two non-unit elements. In a UFD, the irreducible elements are precisely the prime elements.)
In a UFD, any two elements, not both zero, possess a greatest common divisor (gcd).
Moreover, CGAL::Algebraic_structure_traits< UniqueFactorizationDomain >
is a model of AlgebraicStructureTraits
providing: