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Characteristic Sign Video

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The characteristic of a field F is the order of 1, as an element of the additive group (F,+), provided that the order is finite. It is the smallest positive integer m such that the sum 1+...+1 of m copies of 1 evaluates to zero.

Source: Algebra, second edition by Michael Artin
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