What is Sawtooth function?

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What is Sawtooth function?

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Sawtooth function: 

The sawtooth function is a kind of non-sinusoidal waveform. it is named based on its resemblance to the teeth of a saw.

the convention is that a sawtooth wave ramps upward ad then sharply drops.

This periodic function repeats.

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In function notation, a sawtooth can be defined as,

fx=x0x<πx-ππx2π

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