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diff --git a/doc/rfc/rfc154.txt b/doc/rfc/rfc154.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3198216 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/rfc/rfc154.txt @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ + + + + + + +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. + + + [ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ] + [ into the online RFC archives by Naoki Matsuhira 5/97 ] + + + + + + + + + + + + +Crocker [Page 1] + |