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Topic: nonassociative ring
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theodore hwa

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Re: nonassociative ring
Posted: Dec 12, 1999 3:49 PM
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ameen2@my-deja.com wrote:
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: If a ring by definition is associative under multiplication and
: addition, why is there such a thing as a nonassociative ring?

Slight abuse of terminology. Of course, what is meant is "a system with
two binary operations satisfying all the axioms of a ring except
associativity of multiplication"


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