Given an ordered integral domain ≺D,+,⋅≻, then D has characteristic 0, by the following line of reasoning : e∈Dp⟹ne∈Dp for each n∈N. Thus ne=0D for some n, since a positive element cannot be 0D. Therefore the characteristic cannot be n≠0.   True False

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Given an ordered integral domain ≺D,+,⋅≻, then D has characteristic 0, by the following line of reasoning : e∈Dp⟹ne∈Dp for each n∈N. Thus ne=0D for some n, since a positive element cannot be 0D. Therefore the characteristic cannot be n≠0.

 
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Definition: The characteristic of an integral domain D is the smallest positive integer n such that n.1D=0D,  or 0 if there is no such integer.

Definition: An ordered integral domain is an integral domain D equipped with a linear order ≤ such that ab implies a+cb+c and acbc for all a,b,cD.

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