Solution

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The periodic extension is an even triangular wave: peaks of height one occur at the even integers and valleys of height zero at the odd integers . Adjacent peaks and valleys are joined by straight segments of slopes . The function is continuous and has corners at every integer.
Figure 1.
Period-two triangular wave and its first odd cosine harmonics
. Original graph of the periodic extension of , together with the first one and four nonconstant terms of its Fourier cosine series. Details.

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