Algebra Colloquium, cilt.12, sa.1, ss.59-65, 2005 (SCI-Expanded)
In this paper, we show that CLn, the chain with n elements, is efficient and that the direct product CLm x CLn is inefficient. Moreover, we embed any finitely presented semigroup S into an inefficient semigroup, namely, the semigroup S∪SLn, where SL n is the free semilattice of rank n.