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The Weierstrass function: $f(x)= \sum\limits_{k=0}^ \infty a^k {\cos\left(b^k\pi x \right)}$ where $0<a<1, \ b \in 2\mathbb{N}-1, \ ab > 1+\frac{3\pi}{2}$ is an example of a continuous function that has a derivative at no point.

Let $f(x):= \sum\limits_{k=0}^ \infty \frac{\cos\left(13^k\pi x \right)}{2^k}$ is a Weierstrass function and it is contentious so it had an an antiderivative i.e $F(x):=\int_0^x f(t)dt$

I am curious how the graph of this $F$ looks like because $F(x)$ is differentiable at all $x \in \mathbb{R}$ but it doesn't have a second derivative at any point.

I don't know how to graph such functions or what tools to use.

pie
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    I would start by explicitly integrating it to get sine and then using Mathematica to graph the series up to some large number N. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Series.html – Thomas Kojar Mar 25 '24 at 22:44
  • @ThomasKojar I don'y know what "Mathematica" is. – pie Mar 25 '24 at 22:45
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    https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/Series.html – Thomas Kojar Mar 25 '24 at 22:45
  • It would look like this – Тyma Gaidash Mar 25 '24 at 22:59
  • @pie Wolfram Mathematica is a software system with built-in libraries for several areas of technical computing that allow machine learning, statistics, symbolic computation, data manipulation, network analysis, time series analysis, NLP, optimization, plotting functions and various types of data, implementation of algorithms, creation of user interfaces, and interfacing with programs written in other programming languages. – Gary Mar 25 '24 at 23:16
  • @Gary This seem to be a very useful thing to learn, How can I start learning to use Mathematica, as you can see I have no idea about Mathematica at all or any programming languages or any math software I might ask on MSE about this but I think this type of questions will attract down votes and will not get any answer because I have no idea about this – pie Mar 26 '24 at 00:59
  • @pie There are documentations online. There is also mathematica.stackexchange.com where you can ask questions. You can also try https://www.wolframalpha.com/ – Gary Mar 26 '24 at 01:20
  • @Gary I have some questions: can you give some of these documentations? Is wolfram alpha is the same as Mathematica ? if not how to use Mathematica ? do i need to install some app or it is on some website ? – pie Mar 26 '24 at 01:29
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