authors use the term "ring" to refer to structures in which there is no requirement for multiplication to be associative; see the nonassociative ring subsection below. For these authors, every algebra is a "ring".

Illustration

The most familiar example of a ring is the set of all integers consisting of the numbers
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The axioms of a ring are modeled on familiar properties of addition and multiplication of integers.

Some properties

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