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Commutative law: The order of the operands doesn't change the result. For example, 4 + 3 = 3 + 4.

Associative: (1 + 2) + 3 = 1 + (2 + 3) - it doesn't matter which addition you do first.

Both laws are valid for addition, and for multiplication (as these are usually defined, with numbers. However, special "multiplications" have been defined that are not associative, or not commutative - for example, the cross product of vectors, or multiplication of matrices are not commutative.

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