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In mathematics, the characteristic of a ring R, often denoted char, is defined to be the smallest number of times one must use the ring's multiplicative identity in a sum to get the additive identity. If this sum never reaches the additive identity the ring is said to have characteristic zero.
That is, char is the smallest positive number n such that:
if such a number n exists, and 0 otherwise.
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