The period-two bulb is the open disc of quadratic parameters with an attracting exact two-cycle. The points in that cycle are roots of , whose product is . Its multiplier is therefore , giving precisely the disc inequality. At the two roots merge into the fixed point , whose original multiplier is minus one; the second iterate has multiplier one and a triple fixed-point root. This boundary point is the attachment to the main cardioid.
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