Re: recursive blues :(
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg70309] Re: recursive blues :(
- From: Jean-Marc Gulliet <jeanmarc.gulliet at gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 05:37:46 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
- References: <egi1qo$jaa$1@smc.vnet.net>
n00dle0 at yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Why doesn't the following function represent a recurvive and periodic
> function?
>
> \!\(\*
> RowBox[{\(f[x_]\), " ", ":=", " ",
> RowBox[{"\[Piecewise]", GridBox[{
> {\(f[x + 2]\), \(x < \(-0.5\)\)},
> {"2", \(\(-0.5\) = \ x = 0.5\)},
> {"1", \(0.5 < x = 1.5\)},
> {\(f[x - 2]\), \(x > 1.5\)}
> }]}]}]\)
>
>
> What are all possible ways to represent periodic functions?
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
>
Typing syntacticly correct expressions should help:
f[x_] := Piecewise[{{f[x + 2], x < -0.5}, {2, -0.5 <= x <= 0.5}, {1,
Inequality[0.5, Less, x, LessEqual, 1.5]}, {f[x - 2], x > 1.5}}]
Plot[f[x], {x, -2, 2}];
Regards,
Jean-Marc