commutative
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The commutative properties apply only to addition and multiplication!
From Textbooks • May 6, 2020
We saw that subtraction and division were not commutative.
From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020
Since changing the order of the subtraction did not give the same result, we know that subtraction is not commutative.
From Textbooks • Apr. 22, 2020
Unlike most operations we’ve seen, the cross product is not commutative.
From Textbooks • Mar. 30, 2016
Therefore the matters of distributive and commutative justice are not distinct.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint