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In this chapter we build the classical semiring of fractions of a semiring using a straightforward adaptation of the method used for rings. This is a special case of the more general method of constructing semirings and semimodules of quotients, to which we will return in Chapter 18.
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Golan, J.S. (1999). Semirings of Fractions. In: Semirings and their Applications. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9333-5_11
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