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Adjoining identities and zeros to semigroups

Melvyn B. Nathanson

math.NTarXiv:math/0610572

Abstract

This note shows how iteration of the standard process of adjoining identities and zeros to semigroups gives rise naturally to the lexicographical ordering on the additive semigroup of n-tuples of nonnegative integers and n-tuples of integers.

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