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What are Connes and coworkers talking about: Fun with a field with one element? Also, http://arxiv.org/pdf/0806.2401v1.pdf

I don't have much algebra background but thought a field with 1=0 is degenerate?

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    See [this MO question](http://mathoverflow.net/questions/2300/what-is-the-field-with-one-element), or in fact [all of these MO questions](http://mathoverflow.net/questions/tagged?tagnames=f-1&sort=votes&pagesize=50).2012-07-18
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    Sometimes it is pretty clear that they make up stuff just to throw people off.2012-07-18

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