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Prove or disprove this table is a field
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Note from the multiplication table, the one for the $\cdot$ operation, that
$2 \cdot 2 = 0; \tag 1$
thus $2$ is nilpotent; but a field $F$ can have no non-zero nilpotents (note $2 \ne 0$ since $3 + 2 = 1 \ne 3$).
If $F$ is a field and $a \in F$ were nilpotent, that is, if
$a^k = 0, \; 2 \le k \in \Bbb N, \tag 2$
then
$a = a^{1 - k} a^k = a^{1 - k} = 0; \tag 3$
which shows a field has no non-zero nilpotent elements.

A field has no non-zero divisors of zero.