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Trivial ring

A ring defined on a singleton set {x}. The ring operations (. and +) are trivial:

x . x = x

and also

x + x = x

Clearly this ring is commutative.

A unit ring R is trivial whenever 1 = 0, since this equality implies that for all r within R, r = r . 1 = r . 0 = 0


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