Fixed Point

"Fixed point" has many meanings in science, most of them mathematical.

  • Fixed point (mathematics)
  • Fixed-point iteration, a general method to compute the fixed point of an iterated function.
  • Fixed-point combinator
  • For "Fixed-point join" in databases, see Recursive join
  • Fixed-point arithmetic, a manner of doing arithmetic on computers
  • Benchmark (surveying), fixed points used by geodesists
  • For “fixed points” in physics, see Renormalization group
  • Fixed points are necessary for a watercraft to be moored to a quay.
  • Archimedes said δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω, which is sometimes translated as “Give me a fixed point and I will move the world.”

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