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Number Theory Glossary
Number Theory Glossary Abelian Group An abelian group is a group whose operation is commutative, ie a*b=b*a . An example of an abelian group is the integers with the usual addition operation. An example of a group which is not abelian is the rotations of a cube (try it out). When dealing with an abelian group is it conventional to denote the group operation as addition (+), rather than ...




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