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  8. haskell-semigroups: haskell-semigroups (Anything that associates)
  9. haskell-semigroups:
  10. haskell-semigroups: In mathematics, a semigroup is an algebraic structure consisting of
  11. haskell-semigroups: a set together with an associative binary operation. A semigroup
  12. haskell-semigroups: generalizes a monoid in that there might not exist an identity
  13. haskell-semigroups: element. It also (originally) generalized a group (a monoid with all
  14. haskell-semigroups: inverses) to a type where every element did not have to have an
  15. haskell-semigroups: inverse, thus the name semigroup.
  16. haskell-semigroups:
  17. haskell-semigroups:
  18. haskell-semigroups: