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Siegel proved that every totally positive element of a number field K is the sum of four squares, so in particular the Pythagoras number is uniformly bounded across number fields. The p‐adic Kochen operator provides a p‐adic analogue of squaring, and a certain localisation of the ring generated by this operator consists of precisely the totally p‐integral elements of K. We use this to formulate and...