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Re: periodic function

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  • Subject: [mg4085] Re: periodic function
  • From: wagner at motel6.cs.colorado.edu (Dave Wagner)
  • Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 01:36:11 -0400
  • Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

In article <4obep3$na9 at dragonfly.wolfram.com>,
Michel GOSSE  <101632.1565 at CompuServe.COM> wrote:
>I want to plot with Mathematica a periodic fonction. I would like 
>to give the expression between 0 and T (the period) and then use a 
>command like plot(f,{x,a,b}) and the function will plot directly. 
>Is it possible ? 

You should be able to make a definition like this:

	f[t_] := whatever /; 0 <= t < T
	f[t_] := f[Mod[t, T]]

The second rule will be used only when t is outside the range 0..T.

		Dave Wagner
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