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Minimal counting systems and commutative monoids

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Abstract

These notes present an approach to obtaining the basic operations of addition and multiplication on the natural numbers in terms of elementary results about commutative monoids.

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@article{arxiv.0902.2180,
  title  = {Minimal counting systems and commutative monoids},
  author = {Chris Preston},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.2180},
  year   = {2009}
}

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36 pages

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