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Entire Rings (non-commutative Integral Domains), i.e. a ring not necessarily commutative which has no zero divisors.
associates?(x, y)
tests whether x
and y
are associates, i.e. differ by a unit factor.
exquo(a, b)
either returns an element c
such that c*b=a
or "failed" if no such element can be found.
unit?(x)
tests whether x
is a unit, i.e. is invertible.
unitCanonical(x)
returns unitNormal(x).canonical
.
unitNormal(x)
tries to choose a canonical element from the associate class of x
. The attribute canonicalUnitNormal, if asserted, means that the "canonical" element is the same across all associates of x
if unitNormal(x) = [u, c, a]
then u*c = x
, a*u = 1
.
RightModule(%)
LeftModule(%)
BiModule(%, %)