In mathematics, a clean ring is a ring in which every element can be written as the sum of a unit and an idempotent.
A ring is a local ring if and only if it is clean and has no idempotents other than 0 and 1.
The endomorphism ring of a continuous module is a clean ring.
[2] A matrix ring over a clean ring is itself clean.
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