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26:15
A fixed point is a place which
has the property that if you
put it into the function, you
get the same value out.
26:28
Now, I suppose if I were giving
some nice, boring
lecture, and you happened to
have in front of you an HP-35
desk calculator like I
used to have when I
went to boring lectures.
And if you think it was really
boring, you put it into
radians mode, and you hit
cosine, and you hit cosine,
and you hit cosine.
And eventually, you end
up with 0.734 or
something like that.
0.743, I don't remember what
exactly, and it gets closer
and closer to that.
Now that would be more something like 0.739.
And to my knowledge the HP-35 didn't support radians mode.
But I thought you might enjoy the finding nevertheless.