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From now on, we are stuck; indeed the mysterious bit will always be equal to $0$ and so, after the shift to the right, we will always obtain $(0,0,0)$
\end{Example}
We recall the notion of irreducible polynomial (Definition 1). An irreducible polynomial cannot be written as product of two non-trivial factors. It turns out that there is a close links between primitive polynomials and irreducible polynomials, as shown in the following theorem.
\begin{Theorem}
If $p\in \Fb[x]$ is primitive then is irreducible.
\end{Theorem}
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vice versa does not hold. previous theorem cannot be inverted. For example, the polynomial $x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + x + 1$ is irreducible but it is not primitive.
\begin{Exercise}
Verify that $x^4 + x^3 + x^2 + x + 1$ is not primitive via a LFSR.