Deterministic Chaos
Cycles
From the viewpoint of
graphical iteration
viewed along the diagonal,
the point
(x
1
, x
1
)
goes to
(x
2
, x
2
)
, which goes to
(x
3
, x
3
)
, ..., which goes to
(x
n
, x
n
)
, which goes back to
(x
1
, x
1
)
.
Here are graphical iteration plots for a 2-cycle and a 3-cycle of the tent map.
 
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Cycles
.