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Computing Derivatives
Computing Derivatives
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When Leibniz created his dy/dx notation, he did mean for dy and dx to be numbers - infinitesimal numbers, that is. An infinitesimal number is a number that's bigger than zero but smaller than every positive real number. Think about that for...


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