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[โ€“] marcos@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He's wondering about set theory, rings, and algebra and wants you to define what those abstract symbols mean.

[โ€“] LGTM@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Oh field addition? That's just the abelian operation between the group of non-1 elements. Oh a group? That's just a monoid with inverses. Oh a monoid? That's just a semigroup with identity. Oh a semigroup? That's just a set with an associative binary operation. Oh a binary operation? That's