commutative
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The commutative property has to do with order.
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In order to combine like terms in the next example, we will use the commutative property of addition to write the like terms together.
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We saw that subtraction and division were not commutative.
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We have seen that vector addition in two dimensions satisfies the commutative, associative, and additive inverse properties.
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Now a person's deserts are considered also in commutative justice, for instance, in punishments; thus a man who strikes a prince is punished more than one who strikes a private individual.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
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