Time-scale Calculus - Formal Definitions

Formal Definitions

A time scale (or measure chain) is a closed subset of the real line . The common notation for a general time scale is .

The two most commonly encountered examples of time scales are the real numbers and the discrete time scale .

A single point in a time scale is defined as:

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