Network Working Group                                         S. Crocker
Request for Comments: #154                                          UCLA
NIC: #6759                                                   12 May 1971
Categories: C.4
Updates: #107
Obsoletes: #132


                       Exposition Style

As a pedagogical device for describing functions such as the one
below


          |
          |                  +-----------------
          |                 /:
          |                / :
          |               /  :
          |              /   :
          |             /    :
          |            /     :
     -----+------------------------------------
          |                  a
          |

where two formulae, f1 and f2, are necessary for adjoining domains but
the function is continous at the boundary point, I usually write the
description in the form

       f(x) = f1(x) for x =< a
       f(x) = f2(x) for x >= a

The astute reader will note that the domains overlap, but that
f1(a) = f2(a), so no semantic ambiguity obtains.


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