bijection

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bijection - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  bijection
  
     <mathematics> A function is bijective or a bijection or a
     one-to-one correspondence if it is both injective (no two
     values map to the same value) and surjective (for every
     element of the codomain there is some element of the
     domain which maps to it).  I.e. there is exactly one element
     of the domain which maps to each element of the codomain.
  
     For a general bijection f from the set A to the set B:
  
     f'(f(a)) = a where a is in A and f(f'(b)) = b where b is in B.
  
     A and B could be disjoint sets.
  
     See also injection, surjection, isomorphism,
     permutation.
  
     (2001-05-10)