Guassian integers - primes

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Geometry

4⁴, with colouring added, black for the zero, red for the units and blue for the primes..

This Unique Factorization Domain consists of the numbers a+b√{-1}, where a and b are both integers.

For general details about this class of tiling, see.

Publications referenced:

Page 34 of Richard K Guy. Unsolved Problems in Number Theory, Springer Verlag, 1994. ISBN 038794289. [guy] {pp285}

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