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<p>and odd otherwise.</p>

<p>Let R be a <a href="page.php?w=commutative_ring">commutative ring</a> and let I be an <a href="page.php?w=Ideal_%28ring_theory%29">ideal</a> of R whose <a href="page.php?w=Index_of_a_subgroup">index</a> is 2. Elements of the <a href="page.php?w=coset">coset</a>  may be called <b>even</b>, while elements of the coset  may be called <b>odd</b>.As an example, let  be the <a href="page.php?w=Localization_of_a_ring">localization</a> of <b>Z</b> at the <a href="page.php?w=prime_ideal">prime ideal</a> (2). Then an element</p><p>
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