nullary

Adjective

Meaning

(mathematics, of a function) Taking no entries; having trivial domain; having the arity of zero.

(programming, of a function, procedure, command, etc.) Taking no arguments.

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Polyadic or multiary means n-ary for some nonnegative integer n. A 0-ary, or nullary, quasigroup is just a constant element of Q. A 1-ary, or unary, quasigroup is a bijection of Q to itself. Source: Internet

Nullary Sometimes it is useful to consider a constant to be an operation of arity 0, and hence call it nullary. Source: Internet

One combines a Latin prefix with the -ary ending; for example: * A nullary function takes no arguments. Source: Internet

In the nullary case, one can derive truth from no premises. Source: Internet

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