Why is the order of the matrices for multiplication not flipped?

But there is one well known case in which matrix multiplication is commutative: when we deal with a matrix and its inverse. Of course not all matrices are invertible, but if A is invertible, then we have:

A \cdot A^{-1} = A^{-1} \cdot A = I

Of course another way to express that relationship would be:

(A^{-1})^{-1} = A

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