# Relation

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A re­la­tion is a set of tu­ples, all of which have the same gen­er­al­ize the func­tion_ar­ity page to in­clude gen­eral ar­it­yarity. The in­clu­sion of a tu­ple in a re­la­tion in­di­cates that the com­po­nents of the tu­ple are re­lated. A set of $$n$$-tu­ples is called an $$n$$-ary re­la­tion. Sets of pairs are called bi­nary re­la­tions, sets of triples are called ternary re­la­tions, etc.

Ex­am­ples of bi­nary re­la­tions in­clude the equal­ity re­la­tion on nat­u­ral num­bers $$\{ (0,0), (1,1), (2,2), ... \}$$ and the pre­de­ces­sor re­la­tion $$\{ (0,1), (1,2), (2,3), ... \}$$. When a sym­bol is used to de­note a spe­cific bi­nary re­la­tion ($R$ is com­monly used for this pur­pose), that sym­bol can be used with in­fix no­ta­tion to de­note set mem­ber­ship: $$xRy$$ means that the pair $$(x,y)$$ is an el­e­ment of the set $$R$$.

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• Mathematics

Math­e­mat­ics is the study of num­bers and other ideal ob­jects that can be de­scribed by ax­ioms.