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[parent] Viewing Correction to 'division ring'
comment by Mathprof

Correction id: 10264
Filed on: 2006-09-27 12:28:23
Status: Accepted on 2006-10-22 01:44:23
Type: Meta/Minor

Correction text:
This is just a comment. It seems odd i guess to file a correction or even
a comment on language that i had originally suggested:
A field is a commutative division ring.

At the time I was focused on the word "equivalent" and the link. so the new
language took care of that.
Now i wondering about the sentence itself.
Certainly it is true, as any Abstract algebra student has learned.
So no problem there.
I am now thinking though that perhaps one needs to put a little bit more
with it.
Perhaps a label: Theorem (well, yes, but pretty trivial to be a theorem)
or Remark.
Or maybe just, "For example, a field is a commutative division ring."
I guess you did not intend to restate the definition of a field here, since
it is not in the defines list.
I leave it for you to decide.

Comment from object owner djao:
I added an example to fill out the sentence.
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