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Reading Questions 16.6 Reading Questions
1.
What is the fundamental difference between groups and rings?
2.
Give two characterizations of an integral domain.
3.
Provide two examples of fields, one infinite, one finite.
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Speculate on a computer program that might use the Chinese Remainder Theorem to speed up computations with large integers.
