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Restriction (mathematics)
Function with a smaller domain / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For other uses, see Restriction (disambiguation).
In mathematics, the restriction of a function is a new function, denoted
or
obtained by choosing a smaller domain
for the original function
The function
is then said to extend
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