Monday, January 11, 2016

2.2, Due January 11th 2016

1) When it talks about the properties of multiplication in modular arithmetic, it gives names of different rules (i.e. closure for multiplication, associative multiplication, distributive laws, etc.).  However, it doesn't give a name for #11: ab=0, then a=0 or b=0.  Is there a name for that?  And why does this property hold for Z5 and fail for Z6?
2)  It's interesting to see that even exponents in Zn are the same, but I guess it makes sense since multiplication and addition are the same.

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