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Let 
be a set. An operation on 
is a function from a power of 
into 
. More precisely, given an ordinal number 
, a function from 
into 
is an 
-ary operation on 
. If 
is a finite ordinal, then the
-ary operation 
is a finitary operation on 
.
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