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Building a Weierstrass Function in R

Tomaz Kastrun won’t let you take a derivative:

Coming from the simple sine function (remember of Fourier series), German mathematician Karl Weierstrass became the first to publish an example of a continuous, nowhere
differentiable function
. Weierstrass function (originally defined as a Fourier series) was the first instance in which the idea that a continuous function must be differentiable was introduced. This is an example of a fractal in a function (known as a fractal function) and also another of pathological functions (runs counter to some intuition).

Click through for an example of this in R.

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