Trying to remeber a function.

Discussion in 'Physics & Math' started by GMontag, Mar 17, 2006.

  1. GMontag Registered Senior Member

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    I'm trying to remember a function used in my college calculus text as an example of a degenerate case. The function was continuous at every point in (-inf, inf), but not differentiable at any point. Any of you math heads know what function I'm talking about?
     
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  3. Poincare's Stepchild Inside a Klein bottle. Registered Senior Member

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    Yeah, I remember this one.

    Start with a sawtooth wave.

    Halve its amplitude and double its frequency.

    Repeat this process indefinitely.

    Sum all the functions.

    The resulting function is continuous everywhere, but nowhere differentiable.
     
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  5. Dinosaur Rational Skeptic Valued Senior Member

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    The limit of the Koch curve should have that property, but I do not know of an an expression for it it.

    I do not remember any such function with an expression describing it.
     
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