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Irreducible polynomials over finite fields
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Nov1-05, 11:05 AM
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oh and just because Fq is a field, it does not of course follow that q is prime, unless you think that Fq means Z/qZ.
usually Fq denotes the unique field of order q where q is a power of a prime p.