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``Re: Negative primes (seeking comment)'' by vernondalhart on 2005-10-19 11:36:31
It really isn't that much more akward (not that I'm suggesting changing it, really). You simply say that if

x = p_1 ... p_r = q_1 ... q_s

then r = s and up to ordering, p_i = u q_i, where u is a unit.
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