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In a message dated 2/17/2002 4:05:44 PM Central Standard Time, jjllambias@hidden.email writes:>But {po'u} is a very sloppy way of specifying the function you have just {gi'e du} sounds equally afterthoughtish for what is the point after all of the exercise. (goi} by fundamentalist me is for assigning identities to free floating terms like literals and other KOhA, not for specifying functions. Again, it is an informal matter, not a vital one. <I don't take {lo'e} to be just the typical. I've told you this so many times already that I don't know what's the use of saying it again. To me {fy fancu lo'e namcu lo'e namcu} means "F maps numbers to numbers". I agree it is inexact, but useful to distinguish from another function that maps prices to truth values, for example.> You don't expect funadamentalist me to pay any attention to your aberrations do you? Even remember that you have them? And especially when, even when you translate it, I can find no way to make it say that. I don't see how your version is an advantage over (the slightly more exact) {lo' numcu lo'i numcu}, which works as well for distinguishing differrent functions by domain and range -- and actually mentions their domain and range, to boot. <In your interpretation, lo'i te fancu would be the set of all ranges, not the range.> Touche' again. Just use {vo'i} for the same effect. <<I number, Then we're missing an important predicate: "x1 maps value x2 to value x3". I still think that would be the most useful place structure for {fancu}, and that's how it has mostly been used as far as x2 and x3 are concerned. (The use of x1 and x4 seems to vary much more wildly.)> Tsk, tsk. Not by any mathematician I know. But this is just {x3 uizbangi x2}, which is what you specified whizbang for in the first place. Now that you have, use it. I do find the notion of mapping a point onto a point rather strange, what's more. Mapping a domain into a range such that a certain point in one corresponds to a certain point in the other makes sense, but this is so derivative a notion I wouldn't call it mapping. |