More possible multiplicative functions

[Graeme McRae]

My understanding of "multiplicative" is incomplete, it seems.

I thought a sequence was multiplicative if, for all coprime x and y,
a(x)a(y)=a(xy).

Is there a different meaning for "completely" (or "fully") multiplicative?

--Graeme

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "David Wilson" <davidwwilson at comcast.net>
To: "Mitchell Harris" <harris at tcs.inf.tu-dresden.de>; "Sequence Fans"
<seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr>
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2005 2:01 PM
Subject: Re: More possible multiplicative functions


> Well, between "fully", "totally" and "completely" multiplicative, a quick
> Google phrase search gives:
>
> fully: 51 pages
> totally: 134 pages
> completely: 578 pages
>
> So it seems that "completely" wins out in popularity.
>
> However, given the number of pages Google sifts through, none of these
> counts is even significant.
>
>