Monoid

What is a Monoid? When talking about monoids its important to first understand what it means to be a monoid. A monoid, mathematically speaking is a structure with a binary operation, that has a neutral or identity element, is closed, and obeys the law of associativity, but that definition without any context is not easy to understand. For example: What is a binary operation? What does closed mean? What is a identity / neutral element? [Read More]