U+21F8 RIGHTWARDS ARROW WITH VERTICAL STROKE
U+21F8 was added to Unicode in version 3.2 (2002). It belongs to the block
This character is a Math Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as z notation partial function.
The glyph is not a composition. It has a Neutral East Asian Width. In bidirectional context it acts as Other Neutral and is not mirrored. In text U+21F8 behaves as Alphabetic regarding line breaks. It has type Other for sentence and Other for word breaks. The Grapheme Cluster Break is Any.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
In mathematics, a partial function f from a set X to a set Y is a function from a subset S of X (possibly X itself) to Y. The subset S, that is, the domain of f viewed as a function, is called the domain of definition of f. If S equals X, that is, if f is defined on every element in X, then f is said to be total.
More technically, a partial function is a binary relation over two sets that associates every element of the first set to at most one element of the second set; it is thus a functional binary relation. It generalizes the concept of a (total) function by not requiring every element of the first set to be associated to exactly one element of the second set.
A partial function is often used when its exact domain of definition is not known or difficult to specify. This is the case in calculus, where, for example, the quotient of two functions is a partial function whose domain of definition cannot contain the zeros of the denominator. For this reason, in calculus, and more generally in mathematical analysis, a partial function is generally called simply a function. In computability theory, a general recursive function is a partial function from the integers to the integers; for many of them no algorithm can exist for deciding whether they are in fact total.
When arrow notation is used for functions, a partial function f {displaystyle f} from X {displaystyle X} to Y {displaystyle Y} is sometimes written as f : X ⇀ Y , {displaystyle f:X ightharpoonup Y,} f : X ↛ Y , {displaystyle f:X rightarrow Y,} or f : X ↪ Y . {displaystyle f:Xhookrightarrow Y.} However, there is no general convention, and the latter notation is more commonly used for inclusion maps or embeddings.
Specifically, for a partial function f : X ⇀ Y , {displaystyle f:X ightharpoonup Y,} and any x ∈ X , {displaystyle xin X,} one has either:
- f ( x ) = y ∈ Y {displaystyle f(x)=yin Y} (it is a single element in Y), or
- f ( x ) {displaystyle f(x)} is undefined.
For example, if f {displaystyle f} is the square root function restricted to the integers
- f : Z → N , {displaystyle f:mathbb {Z} o mathbb {N} ,} defined by:
- f ( n ) = m {displaystyle f(n)=m} if, and only if, m 2 = n , {displaystyle m^{2}=n,} m ∈ N , n ∈ Z , {displaystyle min mathbb {N} ,nin mathbb {Z} ,}
then f ( n ) {displaystyle f(n)} is only defined if n {displaystyle n} is a perfect square (that is, 0 , 1 , 4 , 9 , 16 , … {displaystyle 0,1,4,9,16,ldots } ). So f ( 25 ) = 5 {displaystyle f(25)=5} but f ( 26 ) {displaystyle f(26)} is undefined.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 8696 |
UTF-8 | E2 87 B8 |
UTF-16 | 21 F8 |
UTF-32 | 00 00 21 F8 |
URL-Quoted | %E2%87%B8 |
HTML-Escape | ⇸ |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | ⸠|
alias | z notation partial function |
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