Express through basic quantifiers on the given domain:

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Homework Statement


x is square free (not divisible by a perfect square) on Z


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Z meaning all integers.


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I did a similar problem earlier that asked for the expression for prime numbers on the Natural numbers domain. For that problem the product of a*b with a,b >1 never equaled a prime number. So for this problem I believe that all of the prime numbers are included in the square free I'm just not sure how to integrate this.
 
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What's wrong with the obvious, "For all y in Z, y2 does not divide x"?
 
I think it works but what about 1

1 squared does divide the square free 1
 
There are two things I don't understand about this problem. First, when finding the nth root of a number, there should in theory be n solutions. However, the formula produces n+1 roots. Here is how. The first root is simply ##\left(r\right)^{\left(\frac{1}{n}\right)}##. Then you multiply this first root by n additional expressions given by the formula, as you go through k=0,1,...n-1. So you end up with n+1 roots, which cannot be correct. Let me illustrate what I mean. For this...
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