Recall that in all rings, semirings, near rings and near semirings, (which include familar things like the reals, the complex etc.) they all have the property:
This means, in all these ordinary systems, we cannot have a multiplicative inverse of zero e.g. $q0=1$ as a contradiction will result
That is, in the algebra that you will be seeing here, 0 is not a multiplicative absorber. However it can still be an identity
so as you can see, $0^2=0$. In order to allow $0^2\neq 0$, using the above diagram, we need to discard axioms from fields such that the proof cannot be completed regardless of how you do it
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These algebras are very different from the usual algebras we came across because they are very unatural as tobias puts in. We literally need to break the usual rules to make them exists. It seems, however that the interesting ones tend to be not associative, however
I suspect the above proof diagrams can be formalised as something in category theory, but I am not very good at that right now to use them yet
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Zero term algebra
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