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Yes. This is called sunspot extrapolation. For the past 400 years, scientists have been observing the sunspot populations. They have found a variety of qualitative (non-numerical) and quantitative (numerical) data and have concluded that the number of sunspots peaks and falls at a cycle of approximately 11 years.

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