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An element of a ring that is equal to its own square is called an idempotent. In any ring, 0 and 1 are idempotents. There are no other idempotents in fields and more generally in integral domains. However, the ring of the integers modulo  has idempotents, where is the number of distinct prime factors of .A commutative ring in which every element is

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