Am 31.03.2012 16:50, schrieb Tom Bachmann:
Since all the "real stuff" is in the elements, why bother with a ring class at all?
The ring class might hold code and comments that apply to all rings, regardless of domain and operations.
> It turns out (every time I try to think about it) that its
most important role is *conversion*: e.g. creating the correct representation of "1".
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