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replaced deprecated tag 'algebra' with what appear to be appropriate tags
Ricardo Andrade
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Commutative associative rational binary operations

What are all the nondegenerate rational binary operations that are commutative and associative? (Examples: $(x,y) \mapsto x+y$, $xy+x+y$, $xy/(x+y)$.)

Feel free to re-tag if you can think of something better than "algebra".

James Propp
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