Fixed Point

"Fixed point" has many meanings in science, most of them mathematical.

• Fixed point (mathematics)
• Fixed-point iteration, a general method to compute the fixed point of an iterated function.
• Fixed-point combinator
• For "Fixed-point join" in databases, see Recursive join
• Fixed-point arithmetic, a manner of doing arithmetic on computers
• Benchmark (surveying), fixed points used by geodesists
• For “fixed points” in physics, see Renormalization group
• Fixed points are necessary for a watercraft to be moored to a quay.
• Archimedes said δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω, which is sometimes translated as “Give me a fixed point and I will move the world.”