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- Subject: Re: '-' operation
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- From: a_rubin@dsg4.dse.beckman.com (Arthur Rubin)
- Date: 15 Dec 92 22:01:46 GMT
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- In <92350.145501B7D@psuvm.psu.edu> <B7D@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
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- >Recently my daughter brought back Problem Set II of Wisconsin Mathematics
- >Science and Engineering Talent Search, and Question 4 in it is as following:
- > Operation @ satisfies the conditions that
- > X @ (Y @ Z) = X @ Y + Z and X @ X = 0 for any real numbers
- > X, Y, Z. Show that @ must be subtraction.
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- A "one line proof":
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- X @ Y + Y = X @ (Y @ Y) = X @ 0 = X @ (X @ X) = X @ X + X = 0 + X = X, so
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- X @ Y = X - Y
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- Well, maybe two lines.
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