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Freshman’s Dream Come True! (But only in characteristic p)

A well-known fallacy committed by students is the so-called “Law of Universal Linearity” (the link is to a discussion of this phenomenon on Mathematics Stack Exchange). The most famous example of this is the statement (x+y)n=xn+yn,Continue reading

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