Timeline for Word to describe a mathematical variable that repeats, like an angle or time
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| Nov 6, 2011 at 23:35 | comment | added | bobobobo | Yeah, its periodic. See complex phasors for the basic idea. | |
| Sep 6, 2011 at 14:40 | comment | added | Vivian River |
I have extensive classroom mathematics experience and periodic is the term we almost always used for a function that repeats. The "length" of each repetition is called the period of the function.
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| Aug 24, 2011 at 18:42 | comment | added | David Z | "Periodic" is the first thing that comes to my mind (though I come from a physics perspective, not pure math). | |
| Aug 24, 2011 at 16:42 | history | answered | Gurzo | CC BY-SA 3.0 |