# distributivity

Given a set (http://planetmath.org/Set) $S$ with two binary operations $+\colon S\times S\to S$ and $\cdot\colon S\times S\to S$, we say that $\cdot$ is right distributive over $+$ if

 $(a+b)\cdot c=(a\cdot c)+(b\cdot c)\mathrm{~{}for~{}all~{}}a,b,c\in S$

and left distributive over $+$ if

 $a\cdot(b+c)=(a\cdot b)+(a\cdot c)\mathrm{~{}for~{}all~{}}a,b,c\in S.$

If $\cdot$ is both left and right distributive over $+$, then it is said to be distributive over $+$ (or, alternatively, we may say that $\cdot$ distributes over $+$).

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