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- /*!
- @file
- Forward declares `boost::hana::EuclideanRing`.
- @copyright Louis Dionne 2013-2017
- Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0.
- (See accompanying file LICENSE.md or copy at http://boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
- */
- #ifndef BOOST_HANA_FWD_CONCEPT_EUCLIDEAN_RING_HPP
- #define BOOST_HANA_FWD_CONCEPT_EUCLIDEAN_RING_HPP
- #include <boost/hana/config.hpp>
- BOOST_HANA_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
- //! @ingroup group-concepts
- //! @defgroup group-EuclideanRing Euclidean Ring
- //! The `EuclideanRing` concept represents a commutative `Ring` that
- //! can also be endowed with a division algorithm.
- //!
- //! A Ring defines a binary operation often called _multiplication_ that
- //! can be used to combine two elements of the ring into a new element of
- //! the ring. An [Euclidean ring][1], also called an Euclidean domain, adds
- //! the ability to define a special function that generalizes the Euclidean
- //! division of integers.
- //!
- //! However, an Euclidean ring must also satisfy one more property, which
- //! is that of having no non-zero zero divisors. In a Ring `(R, +, *)`, it
- //! follows quite easily from the axioms that `x * 0 == 0` for any ring
- //! element `x`. However, there is nothing that mandates `0` to be the
- //! only ring element sending other elements to `0`. Hence, in some Rings,
- //! it is possible to have elements `x` and `y` such that `x * y == 0`
- //! while not having `x == 0` nor `y == 0`. We call these elements divisors
- //! of zero, or zero divisors. For example, this situation arises in the
- //! Ring of integers modulo 4 (the set `{0, 1, 2, 3}`) with addition and
- //! multiplication `mod 4` as binary operations. In this case, we have that
- //! @code
- //! 2 * 2 == 4
- //! == 0 (mod 4)
- //! @endcode
- //! even though `2 != 0 (mod 4)`.
- //!
- //! Following this line of thought, an Euclidean ring requires its only
- //! zero divisor is zero itself. In other words, the multiplication in an
- //! Euclidean won't send two non-zero elements to zero. Also note that
- //! since multiplication in a `Ring` is not necessarily commutative, it
- //! is not always the case that
- //! @code
- //! x * y == 0 implies y * x == 0
- //! @endcode
- //! To be rigorous, we should then distinguish between elements that are
- //! zero divisors when multiplied to the right and to the left.
- //! Fortunately, the concept of an Euclidean ring requires the Ring
- //! multiplication to be commutative. Hence,
- //! @code
- //! x * y == y * x
- //! @endcode
- //! and we do not have to distinguish between left and right zero divisors.
- //!
- //! Typical examples of Euclidean rings include integers and polynomials
- //! over a field. The method names used here refer to the Euclidean ring
- //! of integers under the usual addition, multiplication and division
- //! operations.
- //!
- //!
- //! Minimal complete definition
- //! ---------------------------
- //! `div` and `mod` satisfying the laws below
- //!
- //!
- //! Laws
- //! ----
- //! To simplify the reading, we will use the `+`, `*`, `/` and `%`
- //! operators with infix notation to denote the application of the
- //! corresponding methods in Monoid, Group, Ring and EuclideanRing.
- //! For all objects `a` and `b` of an `EuclideanRing` `R`, the
- //! following laws must be satisfied:
- //! @code
- //! a * b == b * a // commutativity
- //! (a / b) * b + a % b == a if b is non-zero
- //! zero<R>() % b == zero<R>() if b is non-zero
- //! @endcode
- //!
- //!
- //! Refined concepts
- //! ----------------
- //! `Monoid`, `Group`, `Ring`
- //!
- //!
- //! Concrete models
- //! ---------------
- //! `hana::integral_constant`
- //!
- //!
- //! Free model for non-boolean integral data types
- //! ----------------------------------------------
- //! A data type `T` is integral if `std::is_integral<T>::%value` is true.
- //! For a non-boolean integral data type `T`, a model of `EuclideanRing`
- //! is automatically defined by using the `Ring` model provided for
- //! arithmetic data types and setting
- //! @code
- //! div(x, y) = (x / y)
- //! mod(x, y) = (x % y)
- //! @endcode
- //!
- //! @note
- //! The rationale for not providing an EuclideanRing model for `bool` is
- //! the same as for not providing Monoid, Group and Ring models.
- //!
- //!
- //! [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euclidean_domain
- template <typename R>
- struct EuclideanRing;
- BOOST_HANA_NAMESPACE_END
- #endif // !BOOST_HANA_FWD_CONCEPT_EUCLIDEAN_RING_HPP
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