Fixed point
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Fixed point has many meanings in science, most of them mathematical.
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Mathematics
- Fixed point — a number x that makes f(x) = x. There exists a number of fixed-point theorems.
- Fixed point space
- Fixed-point lemma for normal functions
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Computing
- Fixed-point arithmetic — manner of doing arithmetic on computers: a fixed number of decimal (or binary) digits is kept after the decimal point, any remaining digits are rounded.
- Fixed point combinator
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Physics
- Conformal field theory is a different description of a fixed point in the context of the renormalization group, for example see infrared fixed point