- Commutative - Glossary Term
A method of combining two numbers or algebraic expressions is commutative if the result of the combination does not depend on the order in which the objects are given.
For example, addition of numbers is commutative, and the corresponding commutative law is:
for all numbers
Multiplication is also commutative:
for all numbers
but subtraction and division are not, because, for example,
and
