semigroup
suomi-englanti sanakirjasemigroup englanniksi
Any set for which there is a binary operation that is closed and associative.
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1988, A. Ya Aǐzenshtat, Boris M. Schein (translator), ''On Ideals of Semigroups of Endomorphisms'', Ben Silver (editor), ''Nineteen Papers on Algebraic Semigroups'', (w) Translations, Series 2, Volume 139, page 11,
- It follows naturally that various classes of ordered sets can be characterized by semigroup properties of endomorphism semigroups.
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