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dual number  

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  • In algebra, the dual numbers are a hypercomplex number system first introduced in the 19th century. They are expressions of the form a + , where a and b are real numbers, and ε is a symbol taken to satisfy with .
    Dual numbers can be added component-wise, and multiplied by the formula


    which follows from the property ε2 = 0 and the fact that multiplication is a bilinear operation.
    The dual numbers form a commutative algebra of dimension two over the reals, and also an Artinian local ring. They are one of the simplest examples of a ring that has nonzero nilpotent elements.
    (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_number)

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