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General Ring Theory/Principal ideals
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left principal ideal Let be a ring. A left principal ideal of is an ideal of the form with .
Analogously, one may define a right principal ideal.
two-sided principal ideal Let be a ring. A two-sided principal ideal is an ideal of the form for some .