I was looking at some code golf submissions, and in one of them, I saw the header f=\. I reproduced it with the code f=\ 1 print(f)  This prints out 1. Why does this happen? Does \ escape the newline? Thanks!
I have a long line of code that I want to break up among multiple lines. What do I use and what is the syntax?  For example, adding a bunch of strings,  e = 'a' + 'b' + 'c' + 'd'   and have it in two lines like this:  e = 'a' + 'b' +     'c' + 'd'
(Reference : Fraleigh, A first course in abstract algebra)     Prove that a nonempty set $G$, together with an associative binary operation * on $G$ such that $a*x=b$ and $y*a=b$ have solutions in G, $\forall a,b\in G$, is a group.   Because * is an associatie operation, we have to prove that: there exists $e\in G$ such that $e*a=a=a*e$ for any $a\in G$, and that for any $a\in G$ there exists $\alpha \in G$ such that $a*\alpha=e=\alpha *a$.  This is very confusing, first I tried to prove the identity exists. If we consider a=b, then $a*x=a=y*a$, and because of the hypothesis $x,y\in G$ always exists, now we have to show that $x=y$, but I just can't do this with out inverses, so I tried to prove that the inverses exists, however I have no idea how the identity looks like, I'm stuck.  And I tried to get unstuck, so I thought particular cases, first if $G$ had only one element, then what would happend if it had just two elements... but I remembered that we don't know if G is finite or not, and I think this makes things a little bit more complicated.  What can I do? $n,a,b \mathbb \in \mathbb Z^+$ , such that $n\mid a^n-b^n$ ; to show $n\mid \frac {a^n-b^n}{a-b}$ How to prove that the set of rational numbers are countable? Break a previous commit into multiple commits How can I get a complete list of fields for a standard object? Completeness and Incompleteness How to pivot rows into columns MySQL Been looking to pivot rows (progress_check) into columns check 1, check 2 etc... No sum or totals required, just to display the results hopefully... Can anyone help, Thanks Ad PhD in Europe without scholarship from non-European homeland SqlServer: can one table's PK be the FK of two table's? I have three tables project, users and proj_user. 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Let $A=A_1,B=A_2$ be objects and suppose their product $P$ does exist, with projections $\pi_i:P\rightarrow A_i$. By considering a wedge  $$\begin{CD}A @&lt;{id_A}&lt;&lt;  A @&gt;{0_{AB}}&gt;&gt;  B\end{CD}$$  and the obvious analogous one with $A$ and $B$ exchanged, where $0_{A,B}$ is the zero morphism, we see that the product property implies the existence of two unique morphisms $k_i\in\mathcal{C}[A_i,P]$ s.t.  \begin{align*} \pi_j\circ k_i=\begin{cases} \mathrm{id}_i &amp;\text{if }i=j\\ 0_{A_i, A_j} &amp;\text{if }i\neq j \end{cases}. \end{align*} Using these equations and the definition of zero morphism, it's easy to see that the morphism $m\equiv k_1\circ \pi_1+ k_2\circ \pi_2$ satisfies $\pi_i\circ m=\pi_i$.   This is where I get stuck: In the linked proof, they now state that this implies $m=\mathrm{id}_P.$ But I don't see why this should be true.   Specifically, if $\phi\in\mathcal{C}[S,P]$ for some arbitrary object $S$, it is not apparent why $m\circ\phi=\phi$. 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