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本文介绍了数学中结合律的概念及其在不同运算中的应用。结合律表明，在进行多次相同结合操作时，无论怎样组合括号，只要操作数的顺序不变，运算结果就不会改变。文章通过加法和乘法的例子说明了这一点，并探讨了结合律与交换律的区别。

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In mathematics, the associative property[1] is a property of some binary operations, which means that rearranging the parentheses in an expression will not change the result. In propositional logic, associativity is a valid rule of replacement for expressions in logical proofs.

Within an expression containing two or more occurrences in a row of the same associative operator, the order in which the operations are performed does not matter as long as the sequence of the operands is not changed. That is (after rewriting the expression with parentheses and in infix notation if necessary), rearranging the parentheses in such an expression will not change its value. Consider the following equations:

{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}(2+3)+4&=2+(3+4)=9,\2\times (3\times 4)&=(2\times 3)\times 4=24.\end{aligned}}}{\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}(2+3)+4&=2+(3+4)=9,\2\times (3\times 4)&=(2\times 3)\times 4=24.\end{aligned}}}
Even though the parentheses were rearranged on each line, the values of the expressions were not altered. Since this holds true when performing addition and multiplication on any real numbers, it can be said that “addition and multiplication of real numbers are associative operations”.

Associativity is not the same as commutativity, which addresses whether the order of two operands affects the result. For example, the order does not matter in the multiplication of real numbers, that is, a × b = b × a, so we say that the multiplication of real numbers is a commutative operation. However, operations such as function composition and matrix multiplication are associative, but (generally) not commutative.

Associative operations are abundant in mathematics; in fact, many algebraic structures (such as semigroups and categories) explicitly require their binary operations to be associative.

However, many important and interesting operations are non-associative; some examples include subtraction, exponentiation, and the vector cross product. In contrast to the theoretical properties of real numbers, the addition of floating point numbers in computer science is not associative, and the choice of how to associate an expression can have a significant effect on rounding error.

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Contents
1 Definition
2 Generalized associative law
3 Examples
4 Propositional logic
4.1 Rule of replacement
4.2 Truth functional connectives
5 Non-associative operation
5.1 Nonassociativity of floating point calculation
5.2 Notation for non-associative operations
6 History
7 See also