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A periodic tempered distribution constructed from Dirac delta functions for some given period. It allows both continuous and discrete phenomena to be represented in a single framework.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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History
Named after English physicist Paul Dirac. The functions, when plotted visually, resemble the teeth of a comb.
