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- From: hrubin@pop.stat.purdue.edu (Herman Rubin)
- Subject: Re: Function Terminology
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 22:24:00 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.203802.1770@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt) writes:
- >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.
-
- The function is exactly the same. A function, in whatever foundational
- system is used, is something which takes arguments in a domain and
- operates on them. The image set depends only on f and A. Which
- superset of the range is used does not affect the function.
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