mfb comments on Standard and Nonstandard Numbers - Less Wrong
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You should be careful with addition and multiplication - to use them, you would have to define them first, and this is not trivial if you have the natural numbers plus A->B->C->A, infinite chains and so on.
In addition, "group" has a specific mathematical meaning, if you use it for arbitrary sets this is quite confusing.