[HN Gopher] Adding an imaginary unit to a finite field
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       Adding an imaginary unit to a finite field
        
       Author : ibobev
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-11-16 19:46 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | Syzygies wrote:
       | My gut, reading the HN title, was "half the time". I had to read
       | the article, to see how many words piled up before he said that.
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       | Of course, considering finite fields of prime power order, one
       | might leap to the conclusion "a quarter of the time". One can
       | adjoin "i" for prime powers p^n for half the primes and odd n.
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       | Alas, this be wrong, for an amusing reason.
        
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