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Which property adding 0 to any number leaves it unchanged for example a plus 0 equals a?
Additive identity property
What's the additive inverse of -7?
We will answers the two questions:1. What is the additive inverse of -72. What's an additive identity.The additive inverse of a number is the number you have to add to the number in order to get 0. (Or more generically speaking, to get the additive identity element of the group or field.) So the additive inverse of -7 is +7. For any real number a, the additive inverse is -a. If z is a complex number, a+bi, then the additive inverse is (-a-bi) since (a+bi)+(-a-bi)=0.The case becomes a little more interesting in fields other than the real or the complex numbers. The integers mod p, where p is a prime, form a finite field. So if we look at integers mod 7, the additive inverse of 5, for example, would be 2 since 5+2=7 which is congruent to 0 in this field.The additive identity in the field of real or complex numbers is 0."Additive identity" means the number you can add to any other number in order to get the same number back. Since -7 + 0 = -7, the additive identity of -7 is 0.In the case of a+bi where i^2=-1, the additive identity is still 0. If it helps you to think of it as 0+0i, that is fine. In the finite field of integers mod p, where p is a prime, we have p as the additive identity. For example, 2 mod 7 is just 2, and if we add 7 it is 9 but that is still 2 mod 7.All of these ideas can be extended to fields of invertible matrices and many other exciting algebraic structures!
What is an example of property of Zero?
Zero is an additive identity element. That means that any number added to zero gives the original number, such as: 3 + o = 0 + 3 = 3, or more generally a + 0 = 0 + a = a
What is the difference between multiplicative inverse and additive inverse?
The multiplicative inverse of a non-zero element, x, in a set, is an element, y, from the set such that x*y = y*x equals the multiplicative identity. The latter is usually denoted by 1 or I and the inverse of x is usually denoted by x-1 or 1/x. y need not be different from x. For example, the multiplicative inverse of 1 is 1, that of -1 is -1.The additive inverse of an element, p, in a set, is an element, q, from the set such that p+q = q+p equals the additive identity. The latter is usually denoted by 0 and the additive inverse of p is denoted by -p.
What is the additive inverse of .5?
The additive inverse for a number is its negative value. The sum of an integer and its additive inverse is zero. For the example (5), the additive inverse would be (-5).
