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What is the need to differentiate?

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Anonymous

13y ago
Updated: 8/19/2019

Differentiation, is often used to find the tangent of a curved graph. Each time you differentiate a function, you decrease the number of turning points in the graph, to a minimum of no turning points i.e. y = 3x. Differentiating to different orders is also used to find tangents, of tangents.

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