You’re certainly already familiar with several mathematical operations, such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. You may also be familiar with the logical operations AND, OR, NOT, XOR, and IF…THEN. More generally, an operation can be defined on any nonempty set. Operations have the following properties. Arithmetic operations We’ve already discussed a few of the…
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Equality, equity, equivalence, identity, indistinguishability, isomorphism, resemblance, congruence, and similarity
While the title of this post might as well be a thesaurus entry, my purpose here is to investigate the differences between these concepts and how they operate in different contexts. Mathematical equality The reader is almost certainly very familiar with the equals sign or = used in math. Many of us first encounter it…
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