/*
 * JScience - Java(TM) Tools and Libraries for the Advancement of Sciences.
 * Copyright (C) 2006 - JScience (http://jscience.org/)
 * All rights reserved.
 * 
 * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software is
 * freely granted, provided that this notice is preserved.
 */
package org.jscience.mathematics.structure;

/**
 * This interface represents an algebraic structure in which the operations of 
 * addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (except division by zero)
 * may be performed. It is not required for the multiplication to be 
 * commutative (non commutative fields are also called division rings
 * or skew fields). 
 * 
 * @author Jean-Marie Dautelle
 * @version 3.0, February 13, 2006
 * @see 
 *      Wikipedia: Field (mathematics)
 */
public interface Field extends Ring, GroupMultiplicative {

}
 

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