User blog comment:Swooped me in one hit/my first attempt at creating notation./@comment-24920136-20170215192324

Functions are... magical boxes where if you put stuff in, you can get other stuff out

Theres some boxes like that in the real world for example fridges.., you put water in, and you can get ice out.

As a function it could look like

Fridge(Water) = Ice

of course thats not the only way to write a function but its one of the most common.

Addition, and multiplication can be thought of as functions but since they take two or more arguments, you need some separator to let the function know its two different things you're putting in.. Sometimes the operator is also the separator ie:

296*567 = 167832 .  The asterisk does the job of separating as well as being the function.

multiplication can also be written like this:


 * (296,567) = 167832