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In mathematics, a functional is a certain type of function. The exact definition of the term varies depending on the subfield.In linear algebra, it is synonymous with a linear form, which is a linear mapping from a vector space into its field of scalars
In functional analysis and related fields, it refers to a mapping from a space into the field of real or complex numbers. In functional analysis, the term linear functional is a synonym of linear form; that is, it is a scalar-valued linear map. Depending on the author, such mappings may or may not be assumed to be linear, or to be defined on the whole space
In computer science, it is synonymous with a higher-order function, which is a function that takes one or more functions as arguments or returns them.
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