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In mathematics and computer science in general, a fixed point of a function is a value that is mapped to itself by the function.
In combinatory logic for computer science, a fixed-point combinator (or fixpoint combinator): page 26 is a higher-order function that returns some fixed point of its argument function, if one exists.
Formally, if the function f has one or more fixed points, then
and hence, by repeated application,