MHB What distinguishes a Field from a Ring?

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What the differences between Field and Ring?
 
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A ring isn't necessarily commutative in its multiplication, and doesn't necessarily have multiplicative inverses. Some authors assume rings have a multiplicative identity $1$, other authors don't. Addition is the same.
 

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