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- From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
- Subject: Re: Function Terminology
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.203802.1770@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:38:02 GMT
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- In article <1gaq3tINNg9q@uwm.edu> radcliff@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (David G Radcliffe) writes:
- >Suppose I have a function f: A --> B, and C is a subset of B which
- >contains the image set of f. I define a function g: A --> C by
- >setting g(a) = f(a) for all a in A. Usually, f and g can be considered
- >as the same function, but sometimes the distinction is important.
- >
- >Is there a standard term or notation for this?
-
- While I've not heard of one, one could borrow notation used to make the
- analogous distinction for the integer 2 viewed as the real 2. and write
- f:A->B as f. and f:A->C as just f without the point.
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- Vaughan Pratt All knowledge resides in the going odds
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