Moduloid - Abelian Unital Magma

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The discussion centers on the concept of magma, a mathematical structure defined as a set with a binary operation. The focus is on commutative magmas with a unit element, which exhibit intriguing properties relevant to algebra and topology. The author explores a generalization of residue arithmetic, substituting linear spaces with various quotient spaces, leading to the discovery that the induced addition does not always form a group or monoid. A finite set, or magma, is derived from this discretization, suggesting a potential characterization of the quotient space. Updated resources, including software for calculating moduloids for different spaces, are available on the author's website.
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Magma as the mathematical object may be too big to be dealt with.
However I found the magma which is commutative and has the unit element
has some interesting properties which might be applicable to algebra
and topology. For details, please visit;
http://geocities.com/tontokohirorin/mathematics/moduloid/moduloid2.htm
 
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For those wondering, like me:

A magma is simple a set with a binary operation into itself (ie something like an operation on equivalence classes of binary trees indexed by the underlying set). Examples of which are, groups, groupoids, monoids etc.

The link is to a nicely presented page, though I don't have time to read it to see what it is saying. Perhaps a summary? An abstract, here?
 
matt grime said:
For those wondering, like me:

A magma is simple a set with a binary operation into itself (ie something like an operation on equivalence classes of binary trees indexed by the underlying set). Examples of which are, groups, groupoids, monoids etc.

The link is to a nicely presented page, though I don't have time to read it to see what it is saying. Perhaps a summary? An abstract, here?
Thank you for your comment. My website is regarding a generalization of residue arithmetic, in short. You may imagine the residue space in the linear space. I substituted the linear space by some quotient spaces such as sphere, real projective plane, Klein bottle, etc. Then I found the addition induced in that space does not form group, or even monoid in some cases. By discretizing that space, a finite set - or magma - is obtained. I thought that magma may characterize the quotient space in a certain meaning.
 
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