Example 11 ([19.3]) Let be a given natural number, and let the set . A number is called an irreducible number in if there do not exist such that . Prove: There exists that can be expressed as a product of irreducible numbers in in more than one way.
This problem shows that the uniqueness of representing a positive integer as a product of "primes" is not necessarily a valid property. In certain sets of integers, such a property does not hold. There are many such examples, and the appendix also provides such examples.