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What is a contractive mapping vs contraction mapping?

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This is an example from a text to show that this mapping does not have a fixed point because it is contractive but not a contraction:

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I am not sure what the difference is between contractive and contraction. Doesn't the function satisfy all the requirements of the fixed point theorem/


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