Algebraic function

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Algebraic functions are mathematical functions consisting of elementary operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation.

[edit] Introduction

A function which can be constructed using only a finite number of elementary operations together with the inverses of functions capable of being so constructed. Nonalgebraic functions are called transcendental functions.

[edit] Example

y = x2 represents the equation of a parabola, a quadratic algebraic function in x.

[edit] See also

Transcendental function


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