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Unit

Let RR be a ring with identity 1≠01 \neq 0. We call a non-zero element a∈Ra \in R a unit if there exists a non-zero element b∈Rb \in R for which

ab=1ab=1 (sidenote: The identity element 11 of RR is by definition, a unit. )