Codomain is not an obscure term. One second of Googling would have helped.
Re:Functions Are Vectors (2023)
by selimthegrim on Monday July 07, 2025 @03:46PM
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Codomain is different than just range; just think for a bit. In the older literature you are used to their usage is probably synonymous though.
What I did was follow, as in the references, long established convention, that for a function to be a vector at least it had to be in a vector space where (1) can multiply a function by a number (e.g., reals or complex) and (2) add two functions and still get a function in the vector space. To be general, I omitted metrics, inner products, topologies, convergence, probability spaces, and more.
Or, as in the references I gave, math talks about vector spaces and vectors, and each vector is in a vector space. The references are awash in definitions of vector spaces with (1) and (2) and much more.
Computing is awash in indexes for data, e.g., B-trees, SQL (structured query language) operations on relational data bases, addressing in central processors, collection classes in Microsoft's .NET, REDIS, and calling all such also functions confuses established material, conventions, and understanding.