unary operation
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- Subclass of
- unary function
- Followed by
- binary operation
- Follows
- nullary operation
- Has parts of class
- operand
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- Unary operations
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- Category:Unary operations
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Encyclopedic overview
In mathematics, a unary operation is an operation with only one operand, i.e. a single input. This is in contrast to binary operations, which use two operands. An example is any function
f : A → A
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