In this and the subsequent problems, you will be working in a different number system. The goal is to illustrate that unique factorization of prime numbers is a special feature of the integers.
We consider all numbers of the form
where a and b are integers. For example 3 is a number in this system, 2 is not. This number system is denoted is the set
Please do the following:
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