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I don't see how any of that matters to answering the question. Anything that's labeled "algebra" will have addition, multiplication and a field over which those operations are defined. This is the whole point of the term.

Transcendental functions s.a. sqrt() are to algebra like the trolley problem is to physics: deliberately excluded from the domain of discourse.



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