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Find a set <math>S</math> of two elements that satisfies the following:
Find a set <math>S</math> of two elements that satisfies the following:
* <math>S</math> satisfies all the properties of the field except distributivity.


(1) <math>S</math> satisfies all the properties of the field except distributivity.
* <math>\exists x \in S, 0x \neq 0</math>.

(2) <math>\exists x \in S, 0x \neq 0</math>.


Solution:
Solution:
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We verify that <math>S</math> satisfies the (1) and (2).


==Nikita==
==Nikita==

Revision as of 21:21, 4 October 2014

Boris

Problem

Find a set [math]\displaystyle{ S }[/math] of two elements that satisfies the following:

(1) [math]\displaystyle{ S }[/math] satisfies all the properties of the field except distributivity.

(2) [math]\displaystyle{ \exists x \in S, 0x \neq 0 }[/math].

Solution:

Let [math]\displaystyle{ S = \{ a, b \} }[/math] where [math]\displaystyle{ a }[/math] is the additive identity and [math]\displaystyle{ b }[/math] is the multiplicative identity and [math]\displaystyle{ a \neq b }[/math]. After trial and error, we have the following addition and multiplication tables:

[math]\displaystyle{ + }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ a }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ b }[/math]
[math]\displaystyle{ a }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ a }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ b }[/math]
[math]\displaystyle{ b }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ b }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ a }[/math]
[math]\displaystyle{ \times }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ b }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ a }[/math]
[math]\displaystyle{ b }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ b }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ a }[/math]
[math]\displaystyle{ a }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ a }[/math] [math]\displaystyle{ b }[/math]

We verify that [math]\displaystyle{ S }[/math] satisfies the (1) and (2).

Nikita