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document.write( "domai............Every dog in the world<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Correspondence...Names<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Range............Rover, sparky, fido, etc\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Is it a function  yes or no           </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "The short answer is no.  Imagine, if you will, a young married couple.  She is a dog lover of the very worst kind.  He never cared for dogs but begrudgingly agreed that they could have a dog.  She named it 'Baby.'  He, on the other hand, never called it anything but 'damn mutt' and that became his name for the dog.  One dog, two names.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "A function, by definition, maps any value in the domain to a <i><b>single</b></i> value in the range.  One dog, two names violates this element of the definition of a function.\r<BR>\n" );
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