âThat meant representation for all.â. Since then, the best of North Carolinaâs legislative leaders, though not all, have presided over its chambers with an eye toward good government. But last weekâs session was a reversion to the strong-arm rule that Republicans decried in the 1980s.
An identity function is a function that always returns the same value as its argument. In other words, the identity function is the function f(x) = x. x.
An identity is a special kind of number. When you use an operation to combine an identity with another number, that number stays the same. Zero is called the additive identity, because adding zero to a number will not change it: the number stays the same. 0 + a = a = a + 0.