The Gibbs phenomenon refers to the peculiar overshoot that occurs when approximating a discontinuous function using Fourier series or similar spectral methods. This overshoot is approximately 9% of the jump in the function at discontinuities and persists even as more terms are added to the series, highlighting a limitation in the convergence of these methods when dealing with non-smooth functions.
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