Identity Element For Multiplication at Math Glossary

What is it? The number in a set which when any number n in the set is multiplied by, yields the given number; in general, e is the identify element of multiplication for a set if n ae1=1ea=ae = n for all n in the set; the identity element for multiplication is one because a * 1 = 1 * a = a

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