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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!sdd.hp.com!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!ceblair
  3. From: ceblair@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Charles Blair)
  4. Subject: p prime, p divides ab => pdivides a or b
  5. Message-ID: <Btyo8q.E63@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
  6. Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
  7. Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 17:21:47 GMT
  8. Lines: 3
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  10.    My recollection is that a number theory course I took presented
  11. this as a difficult result, only proved after doing some stuff
  12. with the Euclidean algorithm.  Is there a proof which avoids that?
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