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Dylan16807
927 days ago
Eh, P-adic numbers basically write the digits backwards, so "-1" has very little relation to a normal -1.
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mike_hock
927 days ago
Any ring automatically gains all integers as meaningful symbols because there is exactly one ring homomorphism from Z to the ring.
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xigoi
927 days ago
-1 means that when you add 1, you get 0. And the 2-adic number …11111 has this property.
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