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Mathieu function  

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  • In mathematics, Mathieu functions, sometimes called angular Mathieu functions, are solutions of Mathieu's differential equation


    where a, q are real-valued parameters. Since we may add π/2 to x to change the sign of q, it is a usual convention to set q ≥ 0.

    (Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathieu_function)

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