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Partial inverse

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Inverse function.
Partial inverses
Even if a function f is not one-to-one, it may be possible to define a partial inverse of f by restricting the domain. For example, the function
Topic summary

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Inverse function.
Even if a function f is not one-to-one, it may be possible to define a partial inverse of f by restricting the domain. For example, the function