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Periodic Function

A function is said to be periodic (or, when emphasizing the presence of a single period instead of multiple periods, singly periodic) with period

if $ f(x)=f(x+np) $ for , 2, ....

For example, the sine function $ f(x)=sin(x) $, illustrated below, is periodic with least period $ 2\pi $ (often simply called "the" period)

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Ph.D. on Applied Mathematics in Aug 2007. Involved on applications of image super-resolution to electron microscopy

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