source file: mills2.txt Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 12:01:11 -0800 Subject: RE: McLaren on Group Theory, etc. From: Gordon Collins >> The integers modulo N do form a group under addition, > > Hmmm... They are certainly closed over addition, and there certainly >seem to be identity and inverse elements. But I can't recall what else is >required for them to constitute a group. The only other criterion is associativity. Gordon Collins Received: from ns.ezh.nl [137.174.112.59] by vbv40.ezh.nl with SMTP-OpenVMS via TCP/IP; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:02 +0100 Received: by ns.ezh.nl; (5.65v3.2/1.3/10May95) id AA03728; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 22:04:55 +0100 Received: from eartha.mills.edu by ns (smtpxd); id XA03726 Received: from by eartha.mills.edu via SMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/930416.SGI) for id NAA17975; Fri, 13 Dec 1996 13:04:53 -0800 Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 13:04:53 -0800 Message-Id: Errors-To: madole@ella.mills.edu Reply-To: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Originator: tuning@eartha.mills.edu Sender: tuning@eartha.mills.edu