Deterministic Chaos

Cycles

From the viewpoint of graphical iteration,

the point (x₁, x₁) goes to (x₂, x₂),

which goes to (x₃, x₃),

...,

(x_n, x_n), which goes back to (x₁, x₁).

Here are a 2-cycle and a 3-cycle for the tent map.

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