14-240/Tutorial-Sep30

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Problem

Find a set $S$ of two elements that satisfies the following:

(1) $S$ satisfies all the properties of the field except distributivity.

(2) $\exists x\in S,0x\neq 0$.

Solution:

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

$+$	$a$	$b$
$a$	$a$	$b$
$b$	$b$	$a$

$\times$	$b$	$a$
$b$	$b$	$a$
$a$	$a$	$b$

We verify that $S$ satisfies (1) and (2). By the addition and multiplication tables, $S$ is closed under addition and scalar multiplication. Since $a+b=b+a=b$ and $ab=ba=a$, then $S$ is commutative.