associative M21k Associative -- from MathWorld Three elements x, y and z of a set S are said to be associative under a binary operation * if they satisfy x*(y*z) = (x*y)*z. 040909 ... Yahoo! Search mathworld.wolfram.com/Associative.html - More pages from this site Associativity - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ... Put another way, no parentheses are required for an associative operation. Consider for instance the equation ... We say that "addition of real numbers is an associative operation". ... www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Associative - 21k - Cached - More pages from this site 040909 what's it to you? who go blather from