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Heegner number

In number theory, a Heegner number is a positive integer n such that the quadratic field

Q(\sqrt{-n})

has class number 1. Equivalently, its ring of integers has unique factorization. See Stark-Heegner theorem for the proof that such n that are square free are finite in number.

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