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Exercise 2.2.8 (Trivial Ring)

The trivial ring or zero ring is the one-element set with its only possible ring structure. Show that the only ring in which 0 = 1 is the trivial ring.

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Solution: Let (R,+,) be our commutative, unital ring.
If 1 = 0 in R, then r R we have r = 1r = 0r = 0

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