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📚 noun • entry_id 39669

algebraic function

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función algebraica
Informally, any function expressible using (only) the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, division and raising to a rational power; more precisely, any continuous function definable as the root of some polynomial equation.
Quite often, algebraic functions are algebraic expressions using a finite number of terms and involving only the algebraic operations addition, subtraction, multiplication, divisio…
The value of an algebraic function at an algebraic number is always an algebraic number.
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