Prove That the Set of Real Numbers, with Addition and Multiplication

question 15

Essay

Prove that the set of real numbers, with addition and multiplication of real numbers as + and · , negation as complementation, and the real numbers 0 and 1 as the 0 and the 1 respectively, is not a Boolean algebra.

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