Part 3 :
Strange Numbers
Ni Suiti was so bewildered by
Ki Algo
exposition of Ring as the arithmetic structure of 2-color numbers. She
thought there is nothing strange with that at all. All the Ring axioms are also followed
by real numbers. So real numbers arithmetic is also a Ring. Ni Suiti: I suspects that the 2-colored numbers has similar arithmetic as the real numbers.
Ki Algo: Oh, no. There are duet numbers which is squared to themselves. z2 = z
Ni Suiti: I think that is not so. Real number arithmetic has those too. Zero and Unity is such a number
Ki Algo: Well the 2-color numbers have other numbers squared to themselves beside them.
Ni Suiti: What numbers?
Ki Algo: They are z1= 1/2 + 1/2 and
z2= 1/2 - 1/2
Ni Suiti: My goodness. There are two of them.
Ki Algo: Mathematicians called the number as Idempotent number. Idem means equal, potent means power. Because if you power them with any number then the results will be equal to themselves. zn = z with n any integer.
Ki Algo: OK you know now that there are two really duet numbers that square themselves to themselves. Now try to multiply them to each other.
Ni Suiti:
z1.z2= (1/2 + 1/2)(1/2 - 1/2)=Zero
Oh! It is very strange. In 2-color arithmetic, zero is equal to multiplication of two non zero 2-colored numbers. No nonzero real numbers will multiply themselves to zero.
Ki Algo: They called by mathematician as Zero Divisors. In fact there are infinity of zero divisors. All multiple of z1 and z2 are zero divisors. (3 + 3)(5 - 5)=Zero for example. The existence of strange numbers, Idempotents and Zero Divisors, shows us that 2-color arithmetic is not similar in structure to real number arithmetic.
Ni Suiti: OK, I am wrong. The arithmetic of 2-Color Numbers is not similar to the arithmetic of the real numbers. They have more idempotents and infinity of zero divisors.
Ki Algo: Actually, mathematicians called the arithmetic of real number as Field and the arithmetic of 2-color number as commutative Ring with unity (which is Black 1 as unity). A Field is a commutative Ring with unity containing no Zero Divisor.
Ni Suiti: So, the 2-ColorNumber algebra is unique because it has unique structure as the ring with infinite zero divisor and a pair of idempotent.
Ki Algo: No, it's not unique. The Ring of 2-Color Numbers has similar arithmetic structure to counter-complex numbers with two units 1 and e where both units are squared to one. Each of them equivalent to 1 and 1 . Other arithmetic similar in structure to the 2-Color arithmetic is the Group Algebra based on the 2-element reflection group.
Ni Suiti: Anyway, I think all 2-color Numbers has common arithmetic property.
Ki Algo: I do not think so. Please wait for Si Nessa after her travel to Bichromic Two and beyond. See what she found there.
Ni Suiti: Ok. We will see who is right. You or me?
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