I saw the term "a ring with unity", and wikipedia mentions that unity refers to the identity element $1_R$ of the ring. So is a ring with unity the same as a ring with identity?
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$\begingroup$Unity means a multiplicative identity, in the same way that things which are nth roots of 1 in the field $\mathbb{C}$ are called roots of "unity".
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