Concept

Idempotence

Overview

property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science, that can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Garrett Birkhoff
• Necessity and sufficiency
• Logical conjunction
• Function (mathematics)
• Mathematics
• Natural number
• Oxford English Dictionary
• Intersection (set theory)
• Power set
• Merriam-Webster
• Topological space
• Boolean domain
• Union (set theory)
• Computer science
• Complex number
• Absolute value
• Boolean ring

Opposing perspectives

• Non-classical logic

Place in the tradition

Part of Non-classical logic.

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