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batista
on Sept 22, 2012
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What are imaginary numbers?
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For those who find the above so-called Grothendieck construction somewhat puzzling, here's a little motivation and background. It is the group completion of a monoid. The simplest case is the group completion of the free monoid on one generator
Yes, that clears it up totally...
psykotic
on Sept 22, 2012
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Hopefully you kept reading since that part was just the nomenclature for those interested in looking up this stuff.
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Yes, that clears it up totally...