Use Exercises 30 and 36 to show that every finite field is of prime-power order, that is,

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Use Exercises 30 and 36 to show that every finite field is of prime-power order, that is, it has a prime-power number of elements. 


Data from Exercise 30

Let E be an extension field of a finite field F, where F has q elements. Let α ∈ E be algebraic over F of degree n. Prove that F(α) has qn elements.

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