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Formulation F1772 on D264: Semigroup
F1772
Formulation 2
An D21: Algebraic structure $G = (X, f)$ is a semigroup if and only if
(1) \begin{equation} \forall \, x, y \in X : f(x, y) \in X \end{equation}
(2) \begin{equation} \forall \, x, y, z \in X : f(f(x, y), z) = f(x, f(y, z)) \end{equation}