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    Saturation For two ideals I1 and I2 in a Noetherian ring R, we have: ![]() This chain stabilizes at some exponent, say s. The saturation of I1 with respect to I2 is defined as ![]() and s is called the saturation exponent. Geometrically: if the ground field is algebraically closed, then ![]() A SINGULAR example.  | 
    
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