RE: Why x*0 = x
December 20, 2015 at 7:11 am
(This post was last modified: December 20, 2015 at 7:11 am by Alex K.)
One would surely have to give up the distributive law, and my suspcion is that if one wants to keep the most basic properties such as commutativity and uniqueness, that the * would basically become a second + if you force 0 to be the neutral element.
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