>(x,y) is an ordered pair (remember the Cartesian coordinate system in high
>school?). Further, if both x and y are probabilities (this is not clear
>in the definition of this "function") then it is trivial that it is at its
>greatest value when both x and y are positive considering that x and y are
>from the set [0,1]. However, since we are not dealing with a function
>(see _An Introduction to Mathematical Analysis_ by Lewin and Lewin, 1988
>for a definition of a function) all the statements about a function are
>irrelevant.
y=f(x) is a function with one dependent variable, one independent variable.
In the above we have two variables.
Feeling is a function (A N. Whitehead).
john foster
>What? An operator, mathematical speaking, takes an element from one set
>and maps it into another (or more correctly an operator takes an element
>from one vector space and maps it to another vector space). For example,
>linear operators such as the Lebegue Integral. Since we are not dealing
>with a mapping such a statement doesn't make sense.
>
>Steve
I was not talking about mathematics. What do surgical doctors do? Operate.
What do telephone operators do? They function a certain way.
>
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