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This was very helpful. Thanks a lot.

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You just need to show that a field can't contain zero-divisors. Since a ring that isn't an integral domain has zero divisor by definition, and if a ring is contained in another ring they have the same multiplication, addition, and zero, a non-integral domain can't be contained in a field.

--Dfreidin 17:26, 29 October 2008 (UTC)

This was very helpful. Thanks a lot.

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