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Boolean ring

noun

Etymology

Named after George Boole (1815–1864), an English mathematician, educator, philosopher and logician.

  1. derived from mathematician

Definitions

  1. A ring whose multiplicative operation is idempotent.

    • From the defining idempotency property of a Boolean ring it is possible to prove that such ring has to have the further properties that each element is its own inverse and that such ring must be commutative.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Boolean ring. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA