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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, the <b>Grothendieck group</b>, or <b>group of differences</b>, of a <a href="page.php?w=commutative_monoid">commutative monoid</a>  is a certain <a href="page.php?w=abelian_group">abelian group</a>. This abelian group is constructed from  in the most universal way, in the sense that any abelian group containing a <a href="page.php?w=group_homomorphism">homomorphic</a> <a href="page.php?w=image_%28mathematics%29">image</a> of  will also contain a homomorphic image of the Grothendieck group of</p><p>
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