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by mafaa 1982 days ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(mathematics) it’s a little hard to describe as it’s fairly abstract. It’s a structure that is subset of abelian groups (groups where operations on elements of the group don’t depend on the order written, ie x+y = y+x). For example the set of ints with “normal” addition and multiplication is a communicative ring