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Characteristic
Reading time: 1minThe characteristic of a ring R is defined to be the smallest number of times one must use the ring's multiplicative identity element in a sum to get the additive identity element. The ring is said to have a characteristic zero if this sum never reaches the additive identity.
Syntax
characteristic(Ring)
Description
Returns the characteristic of a ring.
