Editing Class number problem (section)

==Real quadratic fields==
The contrasting case of ''real'' quadratic fields is very different, and much less is known. That is because what enters the analytic formula for the class number is not ''h'', the class number, on its own — but ''h''&nbsp;log&nbsp;''ε'', where ''ε'' is a [[fundamental unit (number theory)|fundamental unit]]. This extra factor is hard to control. It may well be the case that class number 1 for real quadratic fields occurs infinitely often.

The Cohen–Lenstra heuristics{{sfn|Cohen|1993|loc=ch. 5.10}} are a set of more precise conjectures about the structure of class groups of quadratic fields. For real fields they predict that about 75.45% of the fields obtained by adjoining the square root of a prime will have class number 1, a result that agrees with computations.<ref>{{Cite journal
  | last1 = te Riele
  | first1 = Herman
  | last2 = Williams
  | first2 = Hugh 
  | year = 2003 
  | title = New Computations Concerning the Cohen-Lenstra Heuristics
  | journal = Experimental Mathematics
  | volume = 12
  | issue = 1 
  | pages = 99–113
  | url = http://www.emis.de/journals/EM/expmath/volumes/12/12.1/pp99_113.pdf
  | doi=10.1080/10586458.2003.10504715| s2cid = 10221100
 }}</ref>