Zero and one have the same quantifier-free type in the multiplicative integers

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In the constant-free language with multiplication as its sole nonlogical symbol, every term in one free variable is for some . Every atomic formula holds at both zero and one. Hence every quantifier-free formula, being a finite Boolean combination of those atoms, has the same truth value at both points. They have the same quantifier-free type, and neither singleton is quantifier-free definable. Quantifiers distinguish them: defines zero, while defines one. These formulas do not rely on named zero or one constants.

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