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Unit Ring

Weisstein, Eric W.


A unit ring is a ring with a multiplicative identity. It is therefore sometimes also known as a "ring with identity."

It is given by a set together with two binary operators satisfying the following conditions:

1. Additive associativity: For all , ,

2. Additive commutativity: For all , ,

3. Additive identity: There exists an element such that for all ,

4. Additive inverse: For every , there exists a such that ,

5. Multiplicative associativity: For all , ,

6. Multiplicative identity: There exists an element such that for all , ,

7. Left and right distributivity: For all , and .

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