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In abstract algebra, an algebra (or more generally a magma) is called alternative if the subalgebra generated by any two of its elements is associative.

Every associative algebra is obviously alternative, but so too are some non-associative algebras such as the octonions. Alternativity is a condition in between associativity and power associativity.

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