Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-rings-and-modules-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2017/1/b/ii/solution

No such ring exists. Characteristic two gives for every . Choose a nonzero element , which exists in a five-element set. Translation is an involution without fixed points: applying it twice gives , while would force by additive cancellation. Its disjoint pairs would partition all five elements, which is impossible because five is odd.
This argument applies even to a nonunital ring. With the unital convention, it is also the case of finite ring characteristic divides cardinality.

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