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Difference
The difference of two numbers
and 
is a number 
such that
(the minuend) and 
(the subtrahend) is denoted by 
.
The definition is similar for the elements 
of any additive Abelian group
(e.g. of a vector space).The difference of them is always unique.
Some identities
