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Associative Binary Operations on a Set with Four Elements

Abstract

Associativity of a binary operation is one of most fundamental property in algebra. In this paper, the authors discuss binary operations on a four-element set and show, by partition and composition of mapping, that exactly 3492 operations out of the 4294967296 existing binary operations on the set are associative with counting that how many composition tables are to be verified.

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