Examples of Cancellative Monoids and Semigroups
The positive (equally non-negative) integers form a cancellative semigroup under addition. The non-negative integers form a cancellative monoid under addition.
In fact any free semigroup or monoid obeys the cancellative law, and in general any semigroup or monoid embedding into a group (as the above examples clearly do) will obey the cancellative law.
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