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periodic

In mathematics, function that increases its argument by a fixed amount whilst its value remains the same. That is, if for some a>0, f(x) + a = f(x) for all x.



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The periodic disappearance of their arrows, and the strange pranks perpetrated by unseen hands, had wrought them to such a state that life had become a veritable burden in their new home, and now it was that Mbonga and his head men began to talk of abandoning the village and seeking a site farther on in the jungle.
Here was the element that his splendid but solitary periodic feasts had lacked.
When first he came upon them they were moving slowly but steadily southward in one of those periodic migrations the reasons for which the baboon himself is best able to explain.
 
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