Commutative property
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In mathematics, a binary operation <math>*</math> on a set A is said to be commutative if for all <math>x,y</math> in A we have <math>x*y=y*x</math>. An Example of a commutative operation is addition in the real numbers. When a group's operation is commutative, it is said to be abelian.