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From: ladkin@kestrel.ARPA (Peter Ladkin)
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Subject: Re: not Groups
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Date: Mon, 17-Mar-86 16:07:58 EST
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In article <886@ellie.UUCP>, colonel@ellie.UUCP (Col. G. L. Sicherman) writes:
> 
> 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.

Whoops! I guess I don't have my definitions right. They're very
close, but not the same. I think one has an identity and one not.

Peter Ladkin