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This is another in a series of papers (Kurepa [1956], Tamura [1957], J. Erdös [1959], Hosszú [1963], Aczél [1965], Jessen et al. [1968], Ebanks [1979, 1981, 1982, 1983]) on the functional equation

$$ \Delta (a,b) + \Delta (ab,c) = \Delta (a,bc) + \Delta (b,c),\;\;\,a,b,c \in S. $$
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Ebanks, B.R. (1984). Kurepa’s functional equation on Gaussian semigroups. In: Functional Equations: History, Applications and Theory. Mathematics and Its Applications, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6320-7_14

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