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Subject: Re: Name for not-quite-additive categories
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"Semi-additive" seems a good enough name to me.
Peter Johnstone
On Fri, 6 Jan 2012, Michael Barr wrote:
> 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
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