WordNet
n. a mathematical relation such that each element of one set is associated with at least one element of another set [syn: function]
Usage examples of "mathematical function".
He had looked it up at the library and found an opaque treatise on complex variable theory that apparently described how the sheets made a multi-valued expression into a mathematical function.
They were simply the output of a particular mathematical function, a Riemann zeta function, which has many uses--one being that it is used in some cryptosystems as a random number generator.
Presumably no one would argue that the conservative view on the sum of fourteen and twenty-seven differs from the liberal view, or that the mathematical function that is its own derivative is the exponential in the northern hemisphere but some other function in the southern.
The plug-in units had a wire associated with them and each panel was set up to do a different mathematical function.
Arthur did so, and felt the slight tingle of a mathematical function thrilling through the chicken leg as it moved four-dimensionally through what Slartibartfast had assured him was five-dimensional space.
Arthur did so, and felt the slight tingle of a mathematical function thrilling through the chicken leg as it moved four- dimensionally through what Slartibartfast had assured him was five-dimensional space.
Before departing, he had loaded into his compad a randomized mathematical function that could be compared against a master that he had left lodged in VISAR.
That was not perfectly true: it was obvious enough that the Craigs had used their wealth to carve this landscape into the shape of some bizarre mathematical function.
You defined a mathematical function to map the components of your body to material of the Moon.
Picture the story you have just read as the graph of a mathematical function.
Some mathematical function that will give me nearly perfect randomness.