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BESICOVITCH DEVILS STAIRCASE [1 record]

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Record 1 1995-10-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Mathematics
  • Computer Graphics
OBS

devil's staircase : a system's route to chaos, going through the following states: steady, periodic, quasi-periodic, chaos.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mathématiques
  • Infographie
CONT

Escaliers diaboliques de Besicovitch (...) Leur trait le plus frappant, par rapport à l'escalier du diable, s'observe si l'on divise l'abscisse en un grand nombre de petits segments. Aucun ne correspond à une marche horizontale; toutefois, une très grande proportion du déplacement vertical total s'opère sur un très petit déplacement horizontal, dont la dimension fractale augmente quand on s'éloigne de l'escalier de Cantor.

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