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The term saturation was coined by Nicolas Bourbaki in 1972<ref>https://pdfcoffee.com/commutative-algebra-bourbaki-pdf-free.html</ref>, working in the field of commutative algebra. It came to RTT via [[Gene Ward Smith]] and [[Graham Breed]]'s observations of the work of the mathematician William Stein and his Sage software<ref>It may also have come through PARI/GT</ref>. | The term saturation was coined by Nicolas Bourbaki in 1972<ref>https://pdfcoffee.com/commutative-algebra-bourbaki-pdf-free.html</ref>, working in the field of commutative algebra. It came to RTT via [[Gene Ward Smith]] and [[Graham Breed]]'s observations of the work of the mathematician William Stein and his Sage software<ref>It may also have come through PARI/GT</ref>. | ||
Technically speaking, saturation is a property of lattices, not the matrices that generate them, and is only "bad" when referring to a comma basis or a lattice of supporting maps. | |||
== Torsion == | == Torsion == | ||