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All this talks about centers, operations and inverse operations reminds me of monoids from learning haskell: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Monoids https
by chewzerita 7y ago
All this talks about centers, operations and inverse operations reminds me of monoids from learning haskell: https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Monoids https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Monoids
- DoctorOetker 7y agois it just belgium where we call these "center's" neutral elements of an operation, or did the rest of the HN geography just forget that term?
- 47348436885325 7y agoI think what the original author meant by "centers" of addition and multiplication is closer to "empty sum" and "empty product" respectively. From what they wrote, it seems that they wanted more than just neutrality. In any case I don't think we should retroactively label their novel and necessarily unique concept with a familiar name.