Definition
A magma is a set matched with an operation "" that sends any two elements to another element . The symbol "" is a general placeholder for a properly defined operation. To qualify as a magma, the set and operation must satisfy the following requirement (known as the magma axiom):
- For all, in, the result of the operation is also in .
And in mathematical notation:
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