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multiplicative identity
noun
Mathematics.
- an identity that when used to multiply a given element in a specified set leaves that element unchanged, as the number 1 for the real-number system.
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins
Origin of multiplicative identity1
First recorded in 1955–60
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At a time when Florida is banning the acknowledgment of gender fluidity or any identity outside male and female, this subversive textbook unabashedly tells suggestible children that such things exist as “reciprocal identities,†“cofunction identities,†“additive identity property†and even “multiplicative identity property.â€
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The number 1 in its multiplicative identity is practically bedridden, leaving other numbers unchanged: 6 times 1 equals 6.
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