When pursuing an education in mathematics and algebra, one of the earliest and most important concepts to understand is the associative property, also known as the associative law. This property can ...

A more thorough introduction to the topics covered in this section can be found in the *Elementary Algebra* chapter, Foundations. of AdditionIfa,b,andcare real numbers, then(a+b)+c=a+(b+c). of ...

Abstract: It is often convenient to consider the arguments of a switching function to be the components 0 or 1 of a vector. In order to investigate systematically the properties of switching functions ...