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From: colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman)
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Subject: Re: not Groups
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Date: Wed, 12-Mar-86 14:24:22 EST
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> You might be interested in loops, where the multiplication has 
> different left and right inverses. Unfortunately, elementary
> accounts are rare. There is a volume in the Springer Ergebnisse
> series on loops, written by Bruck. They're useful for representing
> Latin Squares. There's a more recent reference which currently
> escapes me.

The last book I read on Latin Squares called them "quasigroups" or
something like that. "Loops" sounds much better--if they're indeed
the same.

	"An antiset is a mathematical object that fails to
	 contain each of its members." --E. P. B. Umbugio
-- 
Col. G. L. Sicherman
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