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mapping from a mathematical space to the real or complex numbers

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Encyclopedic overview

The arc length functional has as its domain the vector space of rectifiable curves – a subspace of

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “functional” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.