Making Sense of Equivalence Relations

What do we really mean by "equals"? Here we'll look at equivalence relations and some weird context in which it makes sense to say "equals".
I’m Dr. John Estes, the Yerger Chair of Mathematics and Computer Science at Belhaven University. I have been teaching mathematics professionally since 2008, and I love helping students understand the wonderful world of mathematics more.
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