By substantial changes and corrections in Demushkin's old paper the es
sentially final positive answer to the isomorphism problem for monoid
rings of submonoids of Z(r) is obtained. This means that the underlyin
g monoid is shown to be determined (up to isomorphism) by the correspo
nding monoid ring. Thereafter the positive answer to the analogous que
stion for the 'dual' objects - descrete Hedge algebras - is derived. (
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