semifield
There are different definitions of semifield. We give three such which are not equivalent (http://planetmath.org/Biconditional
).
Let be a set with two binary operations “” and “”.
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Semifield is a semiring
where all non-zero elements have a multiplicative inverse.
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Semifield is the algebraic system , where is a group (identity
), the multiplication
“” distributes over the addition “”, the multiplicative identity and all equations and with have solutions , in .
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Semifield satisfies all postulates
of field except the associativity of the multiplication “”.