LMFDB definition

Signature of a number field

The signature of a number field KK is the pair [r1,r2][r_1,r_2] where r1r_1 is the number of real embeddings of KK and r2r_2 is the number of conjugate pairs of complex embeddings.

The degree of KK is r1+2r2r_1+2r_2.

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