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Does Z assume the axiom of choice?

Newsgroups comp.specification.z
Date 2015-01-28 11:33 -0800
Message-ID <d198aad7-01d5-4fd6-8531-cd8253b5d815@googlegroups.com> (permalink)
Subject Does Z assume the axiom of choice?
From Richard Botting <rjbotting03@gmail.com>

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Dumb question.

I've just been reading a paper that uses Z.  It has a schema that declares a function f:A->B but the "where" specifies a property of f that makes it many-many. For a given a:A there can be many b:B that fit the spec.  The "function" f is applied and assumed to select a particular 'b' from the many possible.  This sounds like an explicit appeal to the axiom of choice...

Or I have got this wrong somehow...

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Does Z assume the axiom of choice? Richard Botting <rjbotting03@gmail.com> - 2015-01-28 11:33 -0800
  Re: Does Z assume the axiom of choice? phil.clayton@lineone.net - 2015-02-01 23:53 -0800
    Re: Does Z assume the axiom of choice? Richard Botting <rjbotting03@gmail.com> - 2015-02-02 10:54 -0800
      Re: Does Z assume the axiom of choice? Richard Botting <rjbotting03@gmail.com> - 2015-02-03 15:10 -0800

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