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mathematical operation with only one operand

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Subclass of
unary function
Followed by
binary operation
Has parts of class
operand
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Unary operations
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Category:Unary operations
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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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