Division safe calculation in totalised fields

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Publication date 12-2008
Journal Theory of Computing Systems
Volume | Issue number 43 | 3-4
Pages (from-to) 410-424
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  • Faculty of Science (FNWI) - Informatics Institute (IVI)
Abstract A 0-totalised field is a field in which division is a total operation with 0(−1)=0. Equational reasoning in such fields is greatly simplified but in deriving a term one still wishes to know whether or not the calculation has invoked 0(−1). If it has not then we call the derivation division safe. We propose three methods of guaranteeing division safe calculations in 0-totalised fields.
Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s00224-007-9035-4
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