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- From: ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman)
- Subject: Re: Function Terminology
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:18:19 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?
-
- The standard terminology is that f and g have the same image, but
- different ranges. B is the range of f, and C is the range of g. If the
- range of a function happens to coincide with its image, the function is
- said to be "onto", or is called a "surjection."
-
- --
- Dave Seaman
- ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu
-