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From: "Thomas Bushnell, BSG" <tb+usenet@becket.net>
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Subject: Re: [OT] Re: [9fans] Getting started in Plan9 - help
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 17:20:43 +0000
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paurea@gsyc.escet.urjc.es writes:

> The fact that it is anticonmutative doesn't stop it being a product,
> it distributes with the sum and has an absorbing element (I don't know if
> it is called so in English) and has all sorts of properties which make it a
> product.

I think "absorbing element" in English is just called "zero" (if I'm
guessing right at what you mean).  In whatever ring, the additive
identity is always called "zero".

Thomas