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equivalence class modulo of an integer is the set of all integers of the form , where is any integer. It is called the congruence class or residue class of modulo , and may be denoted , or as or when the modulus is known from the context.

Each residue class modulo  contains exactly one integer in the range . Thus, these integers are representatives of their respective residue classes.

It is generally

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