In this chapter, we discuss relations, a central notion in mathematics. As we will shortly see, we have already encountered many mathematical relations without using this terminology. We begin by formally defining what a relation is and then introduce a special type of relation – equivalence relations and the associated notion of an equivalence classes. In Section 7.4, we study an important and useful equivalence relation: congruence modulo n.
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