reciprocal function plays an important role in simple continued fractions, which have a number of remarkable properties relating to the representation of (both rational and) irrational numbers.

Further remarks

If the multiplication is associative, an element with a multiplicative inverse cannot be a zero divisor ( is a zero divisor if some nonzero , ). To see this, it is sufficient to multiply the equation by the inverse of (on the left),

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