• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.44 no.3
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• pp.719-731
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• 2007

R is called a right ${\Pi}-coherent$ ring in case every finitely generated torsion less right R-module is finitely presented. In this paper, we define a dimension for rings, called ${\Pi}-coherent$ dimension, which measures how far away a ring is from being ${\Pi}-coherent$. This dimension has nice properties when the ring in question is coherent. In addition, we study some properties of ${\Pi}-coherent$ rings in terms of preenvelopes and precovers.