Am Sonntag, 14. August 2016, 23:57:31 schrieb Ciaran McCreesh:
> 
> I'm not sure what a group is. Is it anything like a herd?

It's a set with a binary operator, with following fulfilled:
* closed with respect to the operation
* the operation is associative 
* there is a neutral element for the operation
* and there's an inverse for each element

The neutral element can be shown to be unique. 

Oh, offtopic? Sorry....

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