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This paper discusses some new integer factoring methods involving cyclotomic polynomials. There are several polynomials $f(X)$ known to have the following property ...

The basic facts about separable extensions of discrete fields and factoring polynomials are developed in the constructive spirit of Errett Bishop. The ability to factor polynomials is shown to be ...

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