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Sunday, March 20, 2005

 

21:31

Okay, I'm an idiot. The positive integers do not form a group under multiplication. Duh, there's no inverses! They do, however, form a semigroup with an identity, also called a monoid. It's even abelian, but I'm not sure if an abelian monoid has a special name.

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