Assertion: function | /r/HasAspect | name
Facets:
value: sometimes
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The functions do not even have to be assigned to a variable, or have a name.
text: Sometimes a function has no name, and we see something like:
text: Thomae's function, named after Carl Johannes Thomae, has many names: the popcorn function, the raindrop function, the countable cloud function, the modified Dirichlet function, the ruler function, the Riemann function, or the Stars over Babylon (John Horton Conway's name).
text: Adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing functions which do have a name
text: As it is necessary that the function should have a name, and as I do not know that any has been suggested, I propose to call it the Error-function, on account of its earliest and still most important use being in connexion with the theory of Probability, and notably with the theory of Errors, and to write $$\int_x^\infty e^{-x^2}\mathrm dx=\mathrm{Erf}(x)$$