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Today it means: Belonging or relating to a generalization of the class of real analytic functions based upon the fact that, if f is an analytic function on an interval [a,b] ⊂ R, and at some point f and all of its derivatives are zero, then f is identically zero on all of [a,b]. Full definition →
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