Repulsive. If you take the number 1 and square it, then square the answer, then square the answer again, of course, you will get 1 again and again. So, 1 is a fixed point under that process. Show that every point near 1 gets increasingly distant from 1 under repeated squaring. We call 1 a repeller, since nearby points are repelled from it.
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