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2. Understanding Functions

Vaskaran Sarcar1  
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Kuntala Furniture, Kolkata, West Bengal, India
 

In the previous chapter, you saw a quick overview of functions and learned about pure functions versus impure functions. Since functions are the building blocks for FP, recognizing them and understanding their usage will make your functional journey easier. This is the reason we’ll spend this whole chapter discussing different aspects of functions.

Mathematical Background of Functions

How are mathematics and computer science related to each other? There has been a long ...

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