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Question - Function Definition

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Subject: [mg63703] Question - Function Definition
From: actuary at mchsi.com
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 01:48:59 -0500 (EST)
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Hello:

I'm working my way through the text "A Course in Computational Number
Theory".  A function  in the text is defined in the following manner
xxx[a_Integer,b_Integer,c_List,d_: Infinity]:= yyyyyyyy.

What does  ":Infinity" do in "d_: Infinity"

Thanks

Larry

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