Character table

A character table is like a big chart that shows us how different characters (or types of numbers) behave when we do different things to them. It's like how we behave differently depending on what we are doing or who we are with.

Imagine you have a group of toys, and you want to see how they behave when you move them around. One toy might always go up when you move it left, and another toy might go down when you move it right. We can make a chart to keep track of how all the toys behave when we move them in different ways.

A character table works kind of like that chart. Instead of toys, we have characters or numbers. And instead of moving them around, we do mathematical operations to them like adding or multiplying. For example, if we add two characters together, we can see from the character table what the result will be.

The character table helps us understand how these characters behave when we do different things to them, and it's really useful when we're doing math or studying different mathematical objects.