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... d) Standing waves are a red herring. They can be considered
a fortuitous superposition of leftward plus rightward propagating
waves. In the space of all possible rightward and leftward wave
patterns, standing waves are a subset of measure zero.
Pedagogically speaking, I would not emphasize them and would
not cite them as an example of typical waves.