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Re:Finding a Bug in Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra by psYchotic on Monday September 07, 2026 @05:43PM (#49603280)
That helps. Thank you!

I was trying to come up with something to explain why I couldn't see it myself: every element of an empty set of integers is both even and odd. This feels counterintuitive to me, until I flip it around into a question: what is the set of all integers that are both even and odd?

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Re:Finding a Bug in Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra by mitxela on Monday September 07, 2026 @06:32PM (#49603729)
Neat trick
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Re:Finding a Bug in Dummit and Foote's Abstract Algebra by jibal on Monday September 07, 2026 @11:45PM (#49605445)
Well done. Finding a way to look at things so that results that seemed unintuitive seem intuitive can be powerful and satisfying.
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