[SilasX]

The article wasn’t doing that, and specifically distinguished poles from zeroes:

>> Control theorists like to classify the behaviour of dynamical systems based on what we call poles and zeros. … Again roughly speaking, zeros describe mathematically how a system reacts to some input in the short term, while poles describe how a system reacts in the long term.

[taneq]

Whoops, adding that to my list of things to read again... >.>