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    Basic-products-with-negations

    Rules for normalizing products with negative factors, and reciprocals of negations.

    Definitions and Theorems

    Theorem: functional-commutativity-of-minus-*-right

    (defthm functional-commutativity-of-minus-*-right
            (equal (* x (- y)) (- (* x y))))

    Theorem: functional-commutativity-of-minus-*-left

    (defthm functional-commutativity-of-minus-*-left
            (equal (* (- x) y) (- (* x y))))

    Theorem: reciprocal-minus

    (defthm reciprocal-minus
            (equal (/ (- x)) (- (/ x))))