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On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, Jorge Llambias wrote: > > la xod cusku di'e > > >The function body goes in fancu4, whether that function expression is a > >transcendental trig function, a polynonial, or whatever. "1" is a > >perfectly legitimate polynomial of degree zero. Do I need to tag the fact > >that fancu4 is a function? > > In mathematics it is fairly common to use the same notation, "f(x)", > both for a function and for the value that the function takes on > for a given value of the domain. There is no need to replicate this > in Lojban. Well, I wasn't using "1" as an analog for "f", but as a polynomial. In other words, not its name, but its expression. So I don't see how the confusion concerning f(x) is relevant. -- The tao that can be tar(1)ed is not the entire Tao. The path that can be specified is not the Full Path.