Dedekind's "different": sources, definition, original name

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I am interested in getting the original information regarding Dedekind's idea of the "different" (regarding ideals). Particularly, I am interested in:

1- Knowing the original German name he used for it. I think it was "diskriminant", but I am not sure. 2-Getting his original definition (It would be great if the page could be scanned and bibliographic reference could be given).

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in 1882, Dedekind completes the theory [of ideals] by introducing the different, which gives him a new definition of the discriminant and allows him to specify the exponents of the prime ideal factors in the decomposition of the latter.

In the German text of : Richard Dedekind, Über die Discriminanten endlicher Körper, 1882, Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen 29 (2): 1–56, see page 1 for : "Grundzahl oder Discriminante" and page 38 for : "Grundideal des Körpers".