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Topic: About Functions
Replies: 33   Last Post: Nov 28, 2011 5:23 PM

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Joe Niederberger

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Re: About Functions
Posted: Oct 19, 2011 3:52 PM
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Finally, the big revelation: a Python function that is instantiated with a finite set of pairs of Python entities is the same as the set theoretic notion of function.

You can believe that if you want to. Its OK.

I get it that you are making it up as you go.


Joe N wrote:
>> You can't specialize "your" generic meaning of function in Python and come up with the set theoretic definition of function.
>>

Kirby responded:
>Sure I can. And I've given examples.
>
>Instead of a generic procedure, that starts trains rolling >and flips
>signals on tracks, I dumb it down (specialcase it) to just >sit on a
>database of tuples, with lookup capability.

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