From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.science.mathematics.categories/7130 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Barr Newsgroups: gmane.science.mathematics.categories Subject: Name for not-quite-additive categories Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 14:04:55 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: Reply-To: Michael Barr NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325891340 2769 80.91.229.12 (6 Jan 2012 23:09:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2012 23:09:00 +0000 (UTC) To: Categories list Original-X-From: majordomo@mlist.mta.ca Sat Jan 07 00:08:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from smtpx.mta.ca ([138.73.1.4]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RjIu7-0005We-C2 for gsmc-categories@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Jan 2012 00:08:55 +0100 Original-Received: from mlist.mta.ca ([138.73.1.63]:40623) by smtpx.mta.ca with esmtp (Exim 4.77) (envelope-from ) id 1RjIsP-000489-Q2; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:07:09 -0400 Original-Received: from majordomo by mlist.mta.ca with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RjIsQ-0003jJ-O7 for categories-list@mlist.mta.ca; Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:07:10 -0400 Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.science.mathematics.categories:7130 Archived-At: Has anyone settled on a term to describe categories (such as commutative monoids) in which finite sums and products coincide but are not quite additive? I guess they are commutative monoid enriched. Michael -- Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both. Benjamin Franklin [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]