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Abstract Algebra: Irrationals

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Please provide a proof to the following problem. Thank you for your time, it is greatly appreciated.

"Show that the nth-root of m is not rational unless m = k^n for some integer k."

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Provides steps to calculate whether the the problem is rational.

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Proof:

Suppose the nth-root of m is a rational. Without the loss of generality, I assume m>0, then we have
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