Description: Associativity of the extended real multiplication operation. Surprisingly, there are no restrictions on the values, unlike xaddass which has to avoid the "undefined" combinations +oo +e -oo and -oo +e +oo . The equivalent "undefined" expression here would be 0 *e +oo , but since this is defined to equal 0 any zeroes in the expression make the whole thing evaluate to zero (on both sides), thus establishing the identity in this case. (Contributed by Mario Carneiro, 20-Aug-2015)
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Assertion | xmulass | |