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Re: Defining a function

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• Subject: [mg28603] Re: Defining a function
• From: yarblocks at yahoo.de (Jesse Marder)
• Date: Tue, 1 May 2001 00:17:29 -0400 (EDT)
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On 30 Apr 2001 03:08:42 -0400, "Allan Hayes"
<hay at haystack.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Jesse,
>a is not a function of b.
>Consider:
>Even if we restrict x and y to be positive intergere we have
>        for a = 4
>        a= 1+3 or 2+2 or 3+1
>which give
>        b = 3 or 4 or 3.

sorry, i tried to make it more simple as it is...
a is in fact equal to x^2 - y^2.