partial function
a partial function
from a set
to a set
is an assignment to each element
in a subset of
, called the domain of definition of
, of a unique element
in
. the sets
and
are called the domain and codomain of
, respectively. we say that
is undefined for elements in
that are not in the domain of definition of
. when the domain of definition of
equals
. we say that
is a total function.
[cite:;taken from @discrete_kenneth_2018 chapter 2.3.6 partial functions; definition 13]
[cite:;taken from @discrete_kenneth_2018 chapter 2.3.6 partial functions; definition 13]
some stuff from college
let
be non-empty sets and let
be a relation from
to 
we say
is a partial function from
to
if
is single-valued meaning that for every
there exists at most a single
such that 
we say
equality of partial functions
the functions
are equal if:

of the following functions only 2 are equal
