2-affine complete algebras need not be affine complete. (Q1771927)

A \(k\)-ary function \(f\) on an algebra \(\mathcal A=(A,F)\) is congruence preserving iff \(\text{Con}(A;F)=\text{Con}(A;F\cup \{f\})\). An algebra \(\mathcal A\) is \(k\)-affine complete if every \(k\)-ary congruence-preserving function on \(\mathcal A\) is a polynomial function on \(\mathcal A\). The author defines a suitable \(k\)-ary function \(f_k\) on \(\mathbb Z_4 \times \mathbb Z_2\) such that the algebra \(\mathbb R_k =({\mathbb Z_4 \times \mathbb Z_2};+,f_k)\) is \(k\)-affine complete but not \((k+1)\)-affine complete for every \(k\in \mathbb N\).