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In Chapter 2 we built up most of the basic properties of the natural number system, but we have reached the limits of what one can do with just addition and multiplication. We would now like to introduce a new operation, that of subtraction, but to do that properly we will have to pass from the natural number system to a larger number system, that of the integers.
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Tao, T. (2016). Integers and Rationals. In: Analysis I. Texts and Readings in Mathematics, vol 37. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-1789-6_4
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