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What is a codomain?

What is a codomain? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (mathematics) The target space into which a function maps elements of its domain. It always contains the range of the function, but can be larger than the range if the function is not surjective.
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The set S is called the domain of the function, and the set T is called the codomain of the function.
The user accomplished this pairing by highlighting r in the domain and e in the codomain, and clicking the map button.
In a computer program, the data types of the arguments to a function and the data type of the return value specify respectively, the domain and codomain of a function.
For example, if a unary function is considered as a set of ordered pairs, then the domain and codomain are given by the first and second projections, respectively.
Functions that have the same domain and codomain may be quite different, however, by abstraction, they are of the same sort or type.
For similar reasons, 2D sheets only display nicely if their codomain is 8 bits deep.

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