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Quadratic Number Fields Franz Lemmermeyer By this time the concept had clearly reached Cambodia as Khmer numerals, and documentation shows the idea later spreading to China and the Islamic world. Besides their practical uses, numbers have cultural significance throughout the world. For example, in Western society, the number 13 is often regarded as unlucky, and "a million" may signify "a lot" rather than an exact quantity. There may be a two-way distinction in number, as between singular and plural, three-way, as between singular, dual, and plural, or more. This shows grade level based on the word's complexity. You can write numbers in words, such as six, seven, and eight, or with symbols, such as 6, 7, and 8. For instance, the number 3 can be represented as the class of all sets that have exactly three elements. Alternatively, in Peano Arithmetic, the number 3 is represented as sss0, where s is the "successor" function (i.e., 3 is the third succe...