Can we compose any isometry to obtain the identity? Much like in addition and multiplication, you can. We won't prove that all isometries are invertible (see section 6.5 to do that for yourself), but we will expose how finding the inverse allows us to uniquely identify isometries, as well as exhaustively examine them.
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