Bringing It All Together: What Makes a Group?
To sum up, A set with an operation is a Group If and Only if it satisfies these four properties
- Closure: Combining any two elements produces another element in the set.
- Associativity: The way you group elements doesn't change the result.
- Identity Element: There's an element that doesn't change other elements when combined.
- Inverse Element: Every element has a counterpart that combines with it to produce the identity element.
Single Choice
Which of these following tuples are a group?
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Write a tuple of (set, operation) of your own that is a group. Then explain why it satisfies all 4 properties.
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Write a tuple of (set, operation) of your own that is NOT a group. Then explain why it is not considered as a group.