We then can verify the associative law and the commutative law for multiplication, and the uniqueness of the result of addition indicates the uniqueness and the cancellation law for multiplication.

我们容易验证乘法满足结合律和交换律，并且由加法结果的唯一性得出乘法结果的唯一性和乘法消去律。

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Multiplication and addition are associative operations.

乘法和加法是混合性运算。

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Here we have used the associative law or the cancellation law for multiplication, which are satisfied for natural Numbers, now we assume they are satisfied with fraction Numbers.

这里我们用到了乘法结合律也可以用消去律，本来这些运算律是对正整数乘法适用的，但对于有分数参加的乘法我们也规定适用。

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