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If x and y are two variable quantities, and if there is a rule which assigns a unique value of y to a given value of x, then we call y a function of x, and we use the notation
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Bronshtein, I.N., Semendyayev, K.A., Musiol, G., Muehlig, H. (2004). Functions. In: Handbook of Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05382-9_2
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