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equivalence class

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(mathematics)equivalence class - An equivalence class is a subset whose elements are related to each other by an equivalence relation. The equivalence classes of a set under some relation form a partition of that set (i.e. any two are either equal or disjoint and every element of the set is in some class).


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Many studies have shown that a function acquired by a member of an equivalence class will transfer to other class members (e.
Further, if an input condition specifies a member of a set, one valid and one invalid equivalence class is defined.
4 The higher moments 266 4 Sketch of the proof of the results for QFB 267 1 Introduction The so-called "Union-Find problem" (see (AHU74)) consists of maintaining a representation of equivalence classes or partitions of a finite set, such that the following two basic operations have to be supported, UNION: "merge two different equivalence classes s and t into a single equivalence class" and FIND: "find the equivalence class that contains a given element x".
 
 
 
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