Groups are Closures that have the following properties: 1. **closure**: Every element which is a result of the binary operation of the group is part of the group 2. **associativity**: changing the order of operations doesn't change the result 3. **identity**: there is a neutral element ($0$ in addition, $1$ in multiplication) 4. **inverses**: every element has a element when combined results in the identity element ($+5 + (-5) = 0$) ## Order of elements in a cyclic group $"order"(a) = n/("gcd(a,n)")$ $n$: from $ZZ\/10ZZ$ => $10$ $a$: element to find order of