The distance $\epsilon$ between two image points in a iterated linear map

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Consider

$$x_{n+1} =f \left( x_{n} \right) = \begin{cases} x_{n} & 0\leq x_{n}< 0.5 \\ x_{n}-1 & 0.5\leq x_{n}\leq 1 \end{cases}.$$

Restricting our case to the interval $0\leq x_{n}\leq 0.5$:

For any ‘small’ $\epsilon$ infinitesimally close to $x$:

$$\left \| x-\left ( x+\epsilon \right ) \right \|=\left | \epsilon \right |$$

But why does

$$\left | f\left ( x \right )-f\left ( x+\epsilon \right ) \right |=\left | 2\epsilon \right |?$$

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That factor $2$ is wrong.

For $x < 0.5$ and $x+ε<0.5$, we have:

$$ \left| f(x) - f(x+ε) \right| = \left | x- (x+ε) \right | = \left | ε \right |$$

More generally, for sufficiently small $ε$, you have:

$$ \frac{f(x+ε)-f(x)}{ε} = f'(x),$$

which you only need to rearrange to find $\left| f(x) - f(x+ε) \right|.$