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Is there any monoid in which the product of two non-invertible elements could be invertible?
Since the question came from an undergraduate level perspective, here's a slight variant on the answers given thus far that students might appreciate.
Take the vector space P of real polynomials. Th …
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Conceptual reason why the sign of a permutation is well-defined?
Some years ago, Keith Dennis posted a nice discussion of signs of permutations on the Group-Pub-Forum mailing list, following some papers by Cartier. I gave it to my graduate algebra class as a series …