Bump function

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What Wikipedia says

In mathematical analysis, a bump function is a localized auxiliary function, usually chosen to be smooth and to have compact support.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Bump function”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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