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Originally posted by Giltwist
KM: But we do define 2!=1. I believe next semester I do the proof that 1+1=2. I seem to recall my older friends mentioning something called the successor function
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Is this a rhetorical question? I can't hlep but notice the lack of a question mark...
Anyway, I was referring to the fact that the only
field where the
additive identity (zero) has a
multiplicative inverse (dividing by zero) is the
trivial field, where 1 + 1 = 2 = 1.