The operations +m satisfies many of the same properties of ordinary addition of integers.
Closure: If a and b belong to Zm, then a+mb belongs to Zm.
Associativity: If a,b, and c belong to Zm, then (a+mb)+mc=a+m(b+mc)
Commutativity: If a and b belong to Zm, then a+mb=b+ma
Identity element: The element 0 is identity element for addition modulo m. That is, if a belongs to Zm, then a+m0=0+ma=a.
Additive inverses: If a=0 belongs to Zm, then m−a is an additive inverse of a modulo m and 0 is its own additive inverse. That is, a+m(m−a)=0 and 0+m0=0