- The property of certain operations in mathematics and computer science whereby they can be applied multiple times without changing the result beyond the initial application. In computer science, idempotence can have a different meaning depending on the context in which it is applied. For example, in imperative programming, a subroutine with side effects is idempotent if multiple calls to the subroutine have the same effect on the system state as a single call. ← Wikipedia
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