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- From: edgar@function.mps.ohio-state.edu (Gerald Edgar)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Function Terminology
- Date: 12 Dec 1992 08:45:15 -0500
- Organization: The Ohio State University, Dept. of Math.
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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?
- >
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- g is the astriction of f to C .
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