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Sine Wave

I saw this. And it opened up my mind. I saw the sine. Life is demanding.

A continuous curve that is characterized by a the points reaching a peak, falling smoothly to a lowest point, climbing smoothly back to the previous peak, and falling again to the previous lowest point. This pattern likely continues indefinitely. Many things in nature (like tides and daylight hours per day) follow a sine wave pattern as do many patterns in finance. If it’s cyclical, i.e. repeats itself, and tends to stay within the same high and low values, it’s probably sinusoidal in nature.

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