Property Name
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Addition
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Subtraction
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Multiplication
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Division
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Commutative
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Doesn't work: This does:
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Doesn't work: This does:
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Associative
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Doesn't work: This does:
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Doesn't work: This does:
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Identity
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Inverse
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as long as a ≠ 0.
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as long as a ≠ 0.
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Distributive
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But wait:
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