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FormalConjecturesForMathlib.NumberTheory.NumberField.Quadratic

Any QuadraticAlgebra ℚ a b that is a field is automatically a quadratic extension of , i.e., a degree-2 extension. Combined with IsQuadraticField.instNumberField, this gives NumberField (QuadraticAlgebra ℚ a b) for free.

A quadratic field is a number field: it has characteristic zero and is finite-dimensional over .