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We have to say a word or two about functions because, depending on the ways permitted for their definition, it may be questionable whether they are well-defined at all. Fortunately, our functions will be simple: they will be total functions with values and arguments of well-defined types.

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Dijkstra, E.W., Schotten, C.S. (1990). On functions and equality. In: Predicate Calculus and Program Semantics. Texts and Monographs in Computer Science. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3228-5_3

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