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Old 07-22-2003, 12:25 PM   #55 (permalink)
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Originally posted by Fake Alias
Maybe numbers are a huge loop and somehow positives will meet up with negatives again! now that would be crazy hehehe
Yes, the complete integers are a field defined over addition and multiplication. They are the infinite extension of finite rings and fields, for example, {1,2,3} under the operator ^, where 1^1=2, 2^1=3, 3^1=1.

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