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No, altough the wording might have been misleading—I was refering to the second paragraph, while you seem to have applied it to the first. I hope this clarifies
by mmarx 12y ago
No, altough the wording might have been misleading—I was refering to the second paragraph, while you seem to have applied it to the first. I hope this clarifies the situation a bit:
For any category, the product A * B of two objects A, B (if it exists) is unique only up to isomorphism (this follows from the universal mapping property).
In general, products A * B and C * D need not be isomorphic (and seldomly are), and neither do products from different categories. Many of the commonly-used products actually arise from a product in a suitable category, the cartesian product, for example, is a product in the category of sets.
- tel 12y agoYeah I think I just misunderstood your statement: I agree with this extension upon it completely.