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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=mathematics">mathematics</a>, a <b>function</b> from a <a href="page.php?w=set_%28mathematics%29">set</a>  to a set  assigns to each element of  exactly one element of . The set  is called the <a href="page.php?w=Domain_of_a_function">domain</a> of the function and the set  is called the <a href="page.php?w=codomain">codomain</a> of the function.</p>

<p>Functions were originally the idealization of how a varying quantity depends on another quantity. For example, the position of a <a href="page.php?w=planet">planet</a> is</p><p>
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