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7.7: Summary

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    • Important definitions:
      • relation, binary relation
      • reflexive, symmetric, transitive
      • equivalence relation
      • equivalence class
      • modular arithmetic
      • integers modulo \(n\)
      • well-defined
      • partition
    • Modular arithmetic is an important example of the use of equivalence classes.
    • Functions must be well-defined.
    • Every binary relation can be drawn as a digraph.
    • Every partition gives rise to an equivalence relation, and vice versa.
    • Notation:
      • \(\sim), \(\cong\), or \(\equiv\) are used for equivalence relations
      • \([a]\), or \(\bar{a}\)
      • \(\mathbb{Z}_{n}\)

    This page titled 7.7: Summary is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Dave Witte Morris & Joy Morris.

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