ELI5: Explain Like I'm 5

Bijection

Imagine you have two groups of toys, one group has blue cars and the other group has red trucks. Now, you want to make sure that no car or truck is left out when you match them up based on their similarities.

A bijection is a special way of matching up these toys so that every car has only one truck and every truck has only one car. Just like how every person has only one nose and every nose belongs to only one person.

But, what's even more important is that there are no missing cars or trucks and no extra cars or trucks left over after you finish your matching. Just like how you cannot have two noses or no noses on one person.

This kind of matching is helpful in many areas, such as computer science, where we need to make sure that we have the right amount of data and nothing is lost or duplicated.