Homework Help Thread - Linear Algebra Edition

[JoeP]

Originally Posted by ceptimus

The only remaining problem is the unlikely situation that S(a) doesn't just return a result but affects the original value of a.

I'm assuming this as a maths problem not a computation problem, so a function maps one value onto another (OK, maybe it's "a set of ordered pairs such that ...") - the question of changing the "original value" doesn't arise.